Scenario A – internal threat hunt

The team has a prepared location inside the facility to execute the hunt operations from. Network access has been confirmed, as well as power and cooling. The team already has a plan to use SSH to connect to the devices they need to for data gathering and review. As the hunt team does not have the ability to operate out-of-band and must rely on the existing infrastructure to retrieve data from their new sensors, encryption between the devices is a must. The network administrator has used their access to the NOC to get some servers and standalone storage for the team. The equipment set up by the network administrator has data at rest policies applied to it upon writing to disk.

Before starting, the team lead verifies with the SOC and NOC about any of the current collection locations requiring additional security. Legal has negotiated access to the government-connected networks. However, the data stored there must be physically separate from...