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Building incident playbooks for machine identity breaches
You can't ask a compromised service account if it was really them. Here's how to rethink incident response for machine identities.
Summary
Pull up your SOC’s compromised account playbook and read through the first 15 minutes. Most SOCs begin their response by calling or messaging the user via Teams to ask whether the 2:00 am sign-in from an unfamiliar country was indeed them. Their subsequent actions depend upon what the user responds with. Try that with a service account, and you’ll be waiting a long time.
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