When You're on the Clock, Vectra's Got Your Lock by Niall Errity

This blog post stresses the importance of fast containment in incident response to reduce attacker dwell time and prevent escalation, illustrating concepts with examples like port sweeps and MAZE ransomware. It outlines practical containment methods—endpoint isolation, disabling abused accounts, VLAN-based remediation networks, ACLs, Windows GPO firewall rules, and Linux iptables—along with guidance for limiting critical service access and enabling remote IR, and previews upcoming content on cloud-focused, automated lockdown with Vectra.