Attack Simulation – Democratising the red team toolkits for all defenders
Mitch Ryan This is an abridged version of a talk I authored and presented to a government customer in November 2023. I’ve written about Attack Simulation before, and it’s a topic that…
Deploying Splunk Attack Range on AWS from a Docker container
Mitch Ryan Documentation is available here. Containers are great. Their lightweight nature makes life easy through portability, consistency and speed. By shipping workloads with all their dependencies, we can get those workloads…
Deploying Splunk Attack Range on AWS from Linux
Deploying onto AWS is pretty straight forward. The video above has the key steps, but there is a little bit of prep work we need to do. As always, your…
Adversary simulation using Splunk Attack Range
This post is part of a series, see links at the bottom for further info. Attack simulation is one of those key ideas that I’ve seen customers using with varied…
Balancing collaboration with risk
Mitch I work with a large number of enterprises across the APAC region who are facing a daily battle – how do they provide the business the capability they require, the…
My journey to Microsoft 365 certification
I started working at Varonis a little while ago. In my pre-sales role, I am partnered with an account manager, and our main role in life is to find and…
VMworld 2021 session picks
VMworld is almost upon us again. Virtual for now, but I know we’ll be able to all gather again soon. Why should you attend VMworld? Perhaps you’re a vSphere admin…
Custom service monitoring with vRealize Operations
I recently wrote about app discovery in vRealize Operations. This is great if the service you intend to monitor is contained within the 30 or so out-of-the-box services, but what…
Service discovery with VMware vRealize Operations
VMware vRealize Operations has been the undisputed leader in infrastructure monitoring for the best part of ten years. It doesn’t matter if you want to understand your physical infrastructure, virtualised…
Monitoring AWS infrastructure with vRealize Operations Manager
I’ve been using vRealize Ops for nearly a decade now, and have been enjoying watching it evolve in that time. Since vRealize Operations 8.0, we’ve been able to monitor most…