Niklas Särökaari
465 posts

Niklas Särökaari
@ukk1sec
Detection engineering and threat hunting

A few years ago, having gone deep into the #redteam world, with a world class #blueteam chasing us, I started thinking about the adversary’s access in time. How can you do more with less time? 👇





We're making some changes to the way Office macros work to improve security. Details here - techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-3…. Thank you to folks across the security and Office platform teams for supporting this work - especially the Security team's PM Kellie.

Attack and defense focus a lot on techniques, but underpinning those techniques is a mindset 🧠. Some thoughts over the last few years on the defender's mindset: @johnlatwc/defenders-mindset-319854d10aaa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@johnlatwc/def…

New article from @ScottWBlake on protecting privileged credentials in an Active Directory environment. Recommendations: * Limit # of priv accounts * Remove DA local admin rights * Control systems DAs & EAs can access * Ensure local admin pw changes often trimarc.co/tw-ProtectingP…







