Surviving the Mythos Era: Richard Bejtlich on the Case for NDR
Summary: Richard Bejtlich's NDR Essentials, a free guide published in partnership with Corelight, argues that alerts are becoming less useful as vulnerability discovery accelerates in what the text calls the Mythos Era, and that investigations require defensible evidence rather than assumptions. Bejtlich argues resilient programs should focus on interdiction - identifying and disrupting malicious activity after initial compromise but before a full breach - with network detection and response providing visibility into traffic and threat hunting beginning from a hypothesis about adversarial techniques rather than alert follow-up.
What you should know: The guide's premise is that most organizations cannot investigate the volume of new findings with existing workflows, even with more automation, and that stolen credentials still work once an attacker has a foothold - so the stake is containment between initial compromise and a full breach, not prevention at the perimeter.
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