incident response

Use Windows event logs for ransomware investigations, JPCERT/CC advises
The JPCERT Coordination Center – the first Computer Security Incident Response Team established in Japan – has compiled a list of entries in Windows event logs …

Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage
More often than not, a cyber attack or a cyber incident that results in business disruption will spur organizations to make changes to improve their cybersecurity and cyber …

Current attacks, targets, and other threat landscape trends
In this Help Net Security video, Kendall McKay, Strategic Lead, Cyber Threat Intelligence at Cisco Talos, discusses the trends that Cisco Talos incident response observed in …

Cloud security threats CISOs need to know about
In this Help Net Security interview, Ava Chawla, Head of Cloud Security at AlgoSec, discusses the most significant cloud security threats CISOs must be aware of in 2024. These …

How to design a third-party risk management framework
Most organizations focus on securing routers, servers, firewalls, and other endpoints, but threats can also arise from unfamiliar sources such as third-party networks, which …

4 key steps to building an incident response plan
In this Help Net Security interview, Mike Toole, head of security and IT at Blumira, discusses the components of an effective security incident response strategy and how they …

The rise of SaaS security teams
In this Help Net Security interview, Hillary Baron, Senior Technical Director for Research at CSA, highlights that the recent surge in organizations establishing dedicated …

34% of organizations lack cloud cybersecurity skills
Incident response today is too time consuming and manual, leaving organizations vulnerable to damage due to their inability to efficiently investigate and respond to …

The importance of access controls in incident response
The worst time to find out your company doesn’t have adequate access controls is when everything is on fire. The worst thing that can happen during an incident is that your …

97% of organizations hit by ransomware turn to law enforcement
Sophos has released additional findings from its annual “State of Ransomware 2024” survey. According to the report, among organizations surveyed, 97% of those hit by …

What is cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA)?
Cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) is a set of organizing principles used to create an effective security framework. Using a CSMA approach means designing a security …

MITRE breached by nation-state threat actor via Ivanti zero-days
MITRE has been breached by attackers via two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887) in Ivanti’s Connect Secure VPN devices. The attackers have also …
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