A Snake in the Bits: Security Automation with Python
Security incident response is an intense, high stress, high skill job that relies heavily on human judgement. Despite that, for reasons that we can’t begin to understand, a big part of an incident responder’s job seems to be opening numerous browser tabs and copy-pasting bits of text from one system to another. The hard parts of incident response can’t be automated, but there are entire classes of busy-work that we can eliminate with a few web hooks and some artisanal Python. …