Blue Team Handbook: Incident Response
by Don Murdoch · Don Murdoch
A condensed field reference for defenders working live incidents: attack patterns, Windows and Linux artifacts, log analysis, tcpdump and Snort syntax, and the six-step incident handling process. Built for lookup during an investigation, not cover-to-cover reading.
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