A detective investigates a police department ransomware attack that caused 10 months of lost work and searches for the hacker's IP address for clues on their identity and motive.
Security breaches must be communicated to management immediately, even if the details of the breach are not yet fully understood. The consequences of the breach must be made clear and management must take steps to control the situation from all perspectives.
Digital Forensics Analysts are trained to spot anomalies that could be malicious, but to do so, they must know how a computer and its processes should normally behave.
A hacking expert speculates that it's technically possible for US Cyber Command to decrypt the private chat messages of ISIS media via stealing the private decryption keys of their phones.
A senior security engineer investigates a server issue and goes beyond the surface level checks to find a root shell that was open.