Brushstrokes and breaches with Terryn Valikodath
Summary: Cisco Talos published a Humans of Talos interview with Terryn Valikodath, a Senior Incident Response Consultant, describing a team that handles both proactive work such as incident response plans, tabletop exercises, threat hunts and training, and reactive work investigating security events and recommending recovery steps. Valikodath said his favorite part is running cyber range trainings, a three-day course teaching technical staff how to handle incident response.
What's compelling: The same team that writes an organization's incident response plan draws on incidents it has actually investigated, which is the trust argument Talos makes to customers - and the reason a plan built without that operational experience is worth questioning.
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