It’s time to update your incident response policies. Typically, an incident response plan lays out a process of identification, containment, investigation, attribution, remediation and communication.

Reported incidents of data breaches have reached record levels over the last two years. 1 Given this reality, a data security incident response plan is no longer a luxury; it is a vital tool in every ...

It doesn't matter how large your organization is, you are at risk and sooner or later cyber criminals will try to attack you. It’s not a matter of whether your organization will face a security ...

K12 Security Information Exchange today released a free Cyber Incident Response Runbook for U.S. public schools, a fill-in-the-blank style guide created specifically to help K–12 school leaders build ...

Part of the challenge is demonstrated in the question here. Our legacy thinking may lead us into thinking about incident response in a perimeter-focused way; preparing for an attack does not take into ...

Cyber security incidents have transitioned from potential risks to operational certainties. The constant noise of attempted cyber intrusions, security lapses and IT service events requires all ...

New Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure rules (Final Rules) adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) become effective Sept. 5, 2023. In ...

Here are some points that all IT-specific incident-response plans should include: Scenarios: Pick incidents that are representative of the various crises that could hit, and then outline basic ...

Karen Scarfone is the principal consultant for Scarfone Cybersecurity. She provides cybersecurity publication consulting services to organizations and was formerly a senior computer scientist for the ...

Without a detailed roadmap of how to respond and who to contact, schools will find it difficult to survive a cyberattack. Incident response plans provide a critical blueprint for how schools can ...

Cyberattacks are inevitable in the interconnected digital world. This unsettling truth has been propelled by the exponential growth of the cybercrime-as-a-service model, which lowers the barrier to ...