incident response
Why are current cybersecurity incident response efforts failing?
Business-critical applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems provided by SAP and Oracle, are considered the crown jewels of the enterprise. These assets …
A checklist to help healthcare organizations respond to a serious cyberattack
How should organizations in the healthcare sector respond to outage due to a serious cyberattack? The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) …
The importance of ramping up digital forensics and incident response tech investments
Magnet Forensics announced the release of an IDC survey which revealed that more than half of the respondents are expecting to make major investments in digital forensics and …
How to contain a privileged access breach and make sure it doesn’t happen again
When attackers pull off a privileged access breach, they have a beachhead into your network. Regardless of whether it’s software or users that are ill-protected, threat actors …
Are separate SIEMs for threat hunting a good idea?
In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Dye, CEO at Corelight, talks about the trend of creating separate SIEMs for threat hunting and why this is not achieveable for …
IR and SimEx: Can and should they be standardized?
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) intends to launch a new assurance scheme for incident response (IR) and simulated exercises (SimEx) in Q2 2022, which could become a …
How to improve your IR tabletop exercises and why you really should?
In this interview with Help Net Security, Curtis Fechner, engineering fellow at Optiv Security, explains the function of incident response tabletop exercises and how they can …
Why is trust in legacy vendors on shaky ground?
A Vanson Bourne survey report highlights ransomware payout demands and extortion fees are massively increasing, while trust in legacy IT vendors has dipped and organizations …
How to strengthen incident response in the health sector
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity issued an analysis of the current state of development of sectoral CSIRT capabilities in the health sector since the implementation …
Siloed security data hamper the ability to achieve collective defense
Cyware revealed a research detailing the challenges affecting modern security operations teams and the negative business impact of siloed security operations. According to the …
The importance of crisis management in the age of ransomware
Cybersecurity crises are becoming commonplace. With the massive surge in ransomware attacks in the last few years, businesses can’t afford to ignore the increasing …
One in three IT security managers don’t have a formal cybersecurity incident response plan
Regardless of industry, information security incidents have become more of a targeted threat for businesses, increasing in amount and efficacy, according to the 2021 Data …