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Incident teardowns, detection engineering, reverse engineering and network forensics.

The half of an intrusion that survives rebuilding the endpoint. Tokens, consent grants, federation and the logs that are not retained by default.

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Evidence Gap Challenge No. 1: the laptop was reimaged on Tuesday

A supplier is out €96,000 and the only endpoint that mattered was wiped on day one, by a helpdesk following the documented process correctly. Here is every artefact that still exists. Work out what you can prove, what you can only say is consistent, and the one collection change that would have moved the most from the second column to the first.

about 45 minutes of workT1566.002T1114.002T1078.004
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Guided lab: nine hours at Northwind Freight, from lure to scheduled task

A constructed intrusion written as a DFIR report. You get the same artifacts an analyst gets on day one, in the order they arrive, and you build the timeline yourself. The company is fictional; the techniques, event IDs and analytic reasoning are not.

about 1.5 hours of workT1566.001T1059.001T1003.001

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