The Alert That Wasn't

An EDR alert fired on FANAR-IT-05: 'PsExec used to run a process on a remote host'. The SOC wants to know if an attacker is moving laterally. Your job is NOT to declare an incident — it is to reach the honest verdict. Investigate the alert against the identity context and change records. Not every EDR alert is an attack, and isolating a production host over a false positive has its own cost.