by Dan “Haircutfish” Rearden | haircutfish.com | Guest Author Working in the SOC can be a grind. Whether triaging alerts, escalating to clients, or just trying to understand why users […]

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Security Operations Centers (SOCs) serve as a critical line of defense against today's constantly evolving cybersecurity threats. At the heart of these teams are SOC analysts, who monitor, detect, and respond around the clock to potential attacks.

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Spend time performing forensic analysis on the Windows Operating System and you'll see a host of artifacts that can be used to identify adversary activity. From changes to the registry to the System Resource Utilization Monitor, Windows artifacts run deep. The challenge is locating, extracting, and parsing these artifacts in an efficient manner.

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