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PowerShell is a powerful management tool designed for system automation and configuration; however, its suppleness makes it justifiable to use for other purposes as well. Recent development of PowerShell has placed it also on the list of the live response tools an incident responder should have in their toolbox. In this blog post I’ll go through several key points why PowerShell is as good as it is from the incident responders’ point of view.

These days we can constantly read about new cyberattacks against private and public actors. Even before COVID-19, the healthcare sector...

The number of intrusions into organization IT environments has been increasing over the years. Detecting intrusions remains a difficult task...

JYVSECTEC Red Team participated in CISS2020-OL Critical Infrastructure Security Showdown 2020 Online competition and placed 3rd out of 17 teams....

Our Realistic Global Cyber Environment (RGCE) is a feature rich live cyber range that brings together a realistic global world and...

Some say all good things must come to an end. The CINCAN project started in 2018 and this 2-year project,...

The containerized GRR is a forked version of GRR Rapid Response, incident response framework designed by Google engineers. In today’s...

Containerized GRR is a forked implementation of the GRR Rapid Response, a tool for incident response designed and developed by...

There are great sighs of relief among cyber criminals because the systems in use in organisations are not up to...

After studying Internet user tracking and how to avoid it in my Thesis, I decided to experiment with Firefox privacy...

In the digital world, whenever we click on something and reply to some request for information, we are at every...

This blog post presents a tool called ioc_strings that can be used to gather relevant technical information from file strings....

Week 21 was the actual exercise week for the national cyber security exercise. The immense planning and implementation work led...

In an earlier post, Analysing malicious PDF documents using Dockerized tools, we covered the use of some PDF analysis tools we...

Disobey, the annual Nordic security event was held on 11th-12th of January 2019 at Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki. The group of JYVSECTEC...

One of the goals of the CinCan project is to provide tools that automate the repetitive tasks of malware analysis...

Practical training is an important part of studies and has a special part in education. Training period gives an excellent...

User tracking has gained interest after it has become a major source of revenue for advertisers. Tracking methods have evolved...

JYVSECTEC’s cyber range RGCE has been in development since 2011 aiming to provide a realistic exercise environment for organizations of different sizes...

I am representing JAMK University of Applied Sciences in the ECSO Working Group 4 (WG4), which deals with SME issues....

Construction phase 2010 – 2014 First negotiations about co-operation in research and development program around network and computer security were...

First of all, I will have to confess right at the beginning that my over 30-year career at the Finnish...

We want to thank our cooperation partners and people we have met. This year has gone quickly and it has...

Cyber Challenge 2015 was held in connection with Cyber Security & ICT 2015 Exhibition in the congress centre Jyväskylän Paviljonki...

The ongoing month is already halfway and soon comes the day when the doors open onto the Cyber Security &...