Security News > 2020 > June > Strengthen Cybersecurity With These 3 Steps to Rapid Response
These extreme changes have escalated another war, a war against cyber threats, with exposure to new cybersecurity risks that threat actors choose to exploit.
While serving as a Supreme Allied Commander during WWII, Dwight D. Eisenhower said, "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." Planning for rapid response will help ensure you have a foundation in place during times of crisis to work more effectively with your peers to mitigate risk and to answer questions from management about the organization's resilience to the latest threats.
As we've seen before with global threats like Wannacry and are seeing now with COVID-19, crises and outbreaks generate a strong uptick in new, disparate sources of threat information.
Many commercial threat intelligence providers, governments, open source feeds and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK provide valuable threat and outbreak-specific data.
The agility to accept new threat information sources quickly for consumption is at the heart of rapid response.