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Unlocking Fleetspeak Large Scale and Reliability with Cloud Spanner

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Unlocking Fleetspeak Large Scale and Reliability with Cloud Spanner Authored by Frank Tobia, Ike Okoro, Matt Pfeiffer and Dan Aschwanden If GRR and Fleetspeak are foundational tools to do Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR), you likely have experienced its database becoming a key challenge as you scale towards tens of thousands of endpoints. The database handles the constant flow of messages, tracks client states, and manages operational data, and under heavy load, performance and stability can become significant concerns. In this article we introduce a fundamental update that elevates Fleetspeak's datastore infrastructure, making it ready for the most demanding, large-scale deployments with the addition of Google Cloud Spanner as a new datastore option . Fleetspeak is GRR’s communication layer. The Fleetspeak frontend (server) exchanges Protocol Buffer based messages with Fleetspeak agents (clients) on behalf of GRR, providing GRR with a communication conduit. It ...
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About Burnout in Cybersecurity

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Earlier this year, Johan Berggren and I presented at Black Hat EU on the topic of responder burnout. I had a wonderful time presenting and there is a recording of our talk available, but for those who prefer to consume things like this in writing, I wanted to follow it up with this blog post. Neither Johan nor I are psychologists or trained in therapy, so please don’t take this as clinical advice. Our observations about burnout and its causes come from long careers in response and an enduring, intense focus on the issue within our own teams. Additionally, Johan draws on many conversations with his wife (an emergency response (ER) Nurse) and I draw on my almost 30-year history as a volunteer Fire & Rescue responder. In the Cyber Security industry, if you pay attention to the social spaces you will find many references to happy dumpster fires and the “this is fine” dog. People often talk of dropping out of tech to start farming, or of living in the wilderness. These memes and the n...
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