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    The Gamemaster’s Guide to Incident Response

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    July 13, 2015
    The Gamemaster’s Guide to Incident Response

    I had the honor and pleasure of being asked to teach a four hour incident response class at last month’s Circle City Con in Indianapolis, IN (you can watch a recording, here). The subject was preestablished based on attendee interest: building an incident response program in small, medium, and large…

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    Oldie but Goodie – Sleepy Infosec Rockstar Follows!

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    July 12, 2015

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    What is ‘DFIR’? And how do ‘Digital Forensics’ roles vary?

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    July 12, 2015
    What is ‘DFIR’? And how do ‘Digital Forensics’ roles vary?

    I had a discussion today with a particular charming infosec pop star about what differentiates ‘DFIR‘ from other infosec job roles and how it relates to them. This is a question I get asked a lot by ladies and gents interested in making a jump into information security careers, so…

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    Lesley’s Rules of SOC

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    July 8, 2015
    Lesley’s Rules of SOC

    . I tweeted these out of frustration quite some time ago and I’ve since been repeatedly asked for a blog post condensing and elaborating on them. So, without further ado, here are Lesley’s Rules of SOC, in their unabridged form.

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    whois hacks4pancakes

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    July 7, 2015

    Hi, I’m Lesley. It’s very nice to meet you. You might know me better as Hacks4Pancakes. I think it is high time I introduce myself. I’m one of these  and I do this for a living: OK, not quite, it’s actually more like:with a lot of I have been working…

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    Excuse me I have fallen off the blog boat

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    July 7, 2015

    A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, I worked as a SQL developer for a ecommerce company in the 90’s. The commercial internet was relatively new and shiny, hacker culture was in full swing, and even slightly irritating gothy kids could get work in the dot com…

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Hello,

I’m Lesley, aka Hacks4Pancakes

Nice to meet you. I’m a long-time digital forensics and incident response professional, specializing in industrial control and critical infrastructure environments. I teach, lecture, speak, and write about cybersecurity.

I’m from Chicago, living in Melbourne.

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