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Automating Incident Response: How to Reduce Malware Forensics Time by 99% with Python and VirusTotal

Automating Incident Response: How to Reduce Malware Forensics Time by 99% with Python and VirusTotal

Update: 2025-12-11
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Build a pipeline that aggressively removes "Safe" files using three layers.

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The average time to resolve a cyber incident is 43 days. Manually analyzing 5,000 files takes 80 hours. We will build a pipeline that aggressively removes "Safe" files using three layers.

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Automating Incident Response: How to Reduce Malware Forensics Time by 99% with Python and VirusTotal

Automating Incident Response: How to Reduce Malware Forensics Time by 99% with Python and VirusTotal

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