Scenario B – external threat hunt
CSI International had an external communication platform that they use to work as a team. They will continue to use that platform, Teams, and build a separate channel and chat to centralize communications for the organization engaged. These avenues will remain private to the team for the duration of the engagement. This will allow them to speak bluntly about findings and the situation without impacting the customer and their partners during the engagement.
Through Teams, the team lead has a separate channel built for use with the system administrator and security team. The threat hunting team lead encouraged the lead administrator and security team lead to utilize their smartphones for this communication because there are concerns the threat actor is still in the system and could be monitoring their workstations since the administrator and security team are critical members. The leaders of those sections have agreed and will be the only two...
