First 15 minutes

What to do between a high-severity alert landing and the playbook opening. Three windows, a handful of lines each, written to be read standing up.

These sit before the first-hour playbooks, not instead of them. A checklist has three windows and a few lines in each, names the instinct to resist, and ends by handing you to the playbook that takes it from minute sixteen.

Severity
Tactic

1 in all

critical severityCONSTRUCTED

First 15 minutes: an LSASS credential dump alert on a server

EDR or Sysmon event 10 reports LSASS opened with memory-read access by a process that is not a security product, or a rule fires on rundll32 with comsvcs.dll.

T1003.001
11 lines2 windows with expiring evidence