Why So Serious? Making Incident Response More Effective With a Curiosity Mindset

Explore how to enhance incident response effectiveness by adopting a curiosity-driven mindset in this 52-minute conference talk from LASCON. Learn practical strategies for improving alert response when facing common challenges like alert fatigue, varying analyst experience levels, and limited resources. Examine established incident response frameworks and discover how curiosity can transform your approach to security investigations. Understand the gap between ideal incident response workflows and real-world constraints, then develop techniques to maximize effectiveness with existing tools and resources. Gain insights from an experienced security professional who has worked across global incident response environments, from SOC operations to detection engineering, on how to create immediate impact while building long-term improvements through automation and training initiatives.