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Shelly Giesbrecht

Senior Incident Responder

Security Incident Response Services

Shelly is a Senior Incident Responder with Cisco Security Incident Response Services Team.

After many years in the help desk/desktop support trenches learning her craft, Shelly has been focused on Enterprise Security Operations and Incident Response both as an internal employee and as a consultant for the past 10 years.

Shelly tries to learn one new thing every day, and is a firm believer in the bow-tie.

Articles

March 27, 2017

SECURITY

Tabletops Aren’t Just For Eating Dinner On

How to take your Incident Response plan to the next level ‘Practice does everything’ – Periander (Often misquoted as ‘Practice makes perfect’) You’ve gone through the work of creating an incident response (IR) plan, created some runbooks to deal with likely, known threats, and you’re feeling a…

November 28, 2016

SECURITY

What’s in Your Incident Response Go-Bag?

October was National Cyber Security Awareness month and there’s been a lot of talk about how organizations should be doing more to protect their networks. One of the current trends in cyber security is that organizations are increasingly turning to trusted partners like Cisco for some or all of thei…

September 9, 2016

SECURITY

Ransomware: The race you don’t want to lose

In the race to detect and contain ransomware on their networks, many organizations fail before they are out of the gate.  The reason has very little to do with technology, and more so a great deal to do with process. “But we bought all the good tools!”, such organizations protest. Good security tech…