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What’s New
Flashpoint Managed Attribution customers can now capture and save up to ten Snapshots of their virtual machines to quickly and easily return to a previous state. Notes can be added to each Snapshot to keep track of changes.
Why it Matters
Maintaining a consistent and reliable working environment is crucial for digital research and cybersecurity. Digital operations often necessitate interacting with malicious files and programs that could compromise virtual machines. With Snapshots, Flashpoint Managed Attribution users can conduct these operations confidently, knowing they can quickly and easily revert to a previous state of their workspace without losing valuable time and data.
Snapshots improve analyst productivity by providing a smoother and more efficient workflow. The ability to annotate Snapshots makes it easy to stay organized with clear documentation and context in each version. Ultimately, the team can focus on what they do best—conducting effective research without the overhead of constant environment rebuilding.
Example: A security analyst working on an investigation may need to test various hypotheses and configurations, but each change risks destabilizing their environment. Rebuilding their workspace from scratch whenever an issue arises is time-consuming and disrupts their workflow and focus. With Snapshots, the analyst can simply revert to a previous state and continue the investigation.
Key benefits
- Save time by restoring your workspace to a previously saved state instead of starting from scratch.
- Document and track changes to improve context for future reference.
- Ensure reliability and stability in your research environment with the ability to revert to a known good state at any time quickly.
Use cases
- Configuration testing and rollback: Experiment with different configurations and revert to a previous state if something goes wrong, ensuring minimal downtime and quick recovery.
- Disaster recovery: In case of data corruption or loss, restore your workspace to a previously saved state without rebuilding your instance from scratch.
- Training: Create Snapshots of different process stages to demonstrate various scenarios for trainees.
How it Works
The feature is enabled for all Managed Attribution customers.
On the homepage of your Managed Attribution instance, click ‘Snapshots‘ on one of your machines.
Click Create Snapshot to create your first Snapshot.
View the Snapshot cards. Each card is a capture of a previously known state. You can Add notes, delete, or revert to a previous version from here.
About Managed Attribution
Flashpoint Managed Attribution provides a secure virtual environment completely isolated from your organization’s browsers, computers, and network infrastructure. This allows analysts and investigators to conduct advanced research, download potentially malicious files, and interact with threat actors and nefarious online content while protecting against malware, trackers, and other cyber threats. To learn more, use the link below to contact our team.