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75% of Identity Attacks Exploit Logging Gaps – What Incident Responders Wish Every SOC Logged

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Modern attacks increasingly bypass traditional defenses, and when they do, the difference between a two-day investigation and a two-week one almost always comes down to security visibility. ty, such as missing logs, limited retention, or fragmented telemetry, to persist in environments and evade investigation.

In this recorded session, Invictus Incident Response and VirtualMetric share what incident responders really need from logging and security data architecture to defend and investigate modern attacks, and how organizations can close visibility gaps without unsustainable SIEM costs.

What’s covered in this session:

  1. The hard truth from real breaches: Key findings from Invictus IR engagements – the identity, persistence, and visibility gaps that appear most frequently in real breach investigations.
  2. The anatomy of real investigations: Two real incident scenarios showing exactly which logs answered the key investigation questions and which were missing.
  3. The logging blueprint: What to collect, how long to retain it, and how to store it – must-have, should-have, and nice-to-have sources for detecting and investigating modern attacks.
  4. How to close the visibility gap: How VirtualMetric DataStream collects, normalizes, and routes security telemetry – reducing SIEM ingestion costs by 50–90% without losing coverage.
  5. The business case: How full visibility reduces cost at every stage – from preventing incidents to resolving them faster.

Bonus resources

Security Visibility Check: A short self-assessment based on real IR cases to identify logging blind spots in your current environment. Takes about 2 minutes. [See your blind spots →]

Security Visibility Blueprint for Better Defense & Response: A practical framework covering priority log sources, retention guidelines, and architecture principles for closing security visibility gaps. [Download the blueprint →]

Speakers:

Curtis Hanson – Managing Partner at Invictus Incident Response. Expert in cyber threat intelligence, incident response, and strategic advisory. Previously with PwC’s Global Threat Intelligence team and Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.

Yusuf Öztürk – Founder & CTO at VirtualMetric. Expert in large-scale telemetry pipelines. Ex-Microsoft MVP. Designer of VirtualMetric DataStream — a real-time security data pipeline platform for security data collection, normalization, filtering, enrichment, and routing.

    About

    Invictus Incident Response is focused on cloud environments while remaining ready for hybrid infrastructure. Trusted by global enterprises during high-stakes cloud breaches, helping organizations reduce exploitable risk, build investigative readiness, and maintain access to specialized incident responders when it matters most.

    VirtualMetric develops security data pipeline technology that helps organizations take control of their security telemetry. Its flagship product, DataStream, processes logs before they reach the SIEM, enabling security teams to reduce data volume, control SIEM costs, and improve detection and investigation with consistent, high-quality security data.

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