Bring Out Your Logs - Cynfeld #4
Episode 4 Synopsis
An overworked Colman falls asleep while watching "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and dreams an angry mob is accusing him of being "malware".
Summary of Animated Video:
In this humorous Monty Python and the Holy Grail-inspired animated short, a tired cybersecurity analyst, overwhelmed by integrating threat intelligence feeds with TIPs, SOARs, SIEMs, and EDRs, escapes into watching a parody. The spoof centers on a medieval tribunal debating whether a suspicious piece of software is “malware.”
The villagers accuse the software using circumstantial evidence: a VirusTotal hash match, Chinese IP connections, system crashes, and vague blog-based TTPs. The scene mocks how quickly cybersecurity teams jump to conclusions based on weak indicators or noisy threat intel. The "malware" protests, claiming it’s a legitimate application caught in false positives.
The video then hilariously parallels malware detection with cybersecurity compliance, drawing comparisons to penetration testing, vulnerability scans, and CMMC audits. A sacred “Book of Cyber Compliances” appears, declaring the holy number of compliance is three—no more, no less—as a divine decree to achieve CMMC Level 3 and keep adversaries like China and Russia out.
The sketch ends with the analyst jokingly “washing off” indicators of compromise before returning to work, satirizing how overburdened and reliant modern cyber teams are on automated tools and compliance theatrics, often missing the nuance between real threats and benign anomalies.