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5 pitfalls that can delay cyber incident response and recovery
2025-03-20 06:30

The responsibility of cyber incident response falls squarely on the shoulders of the CISO. And many CISOs invest heavily in technical response procedures, tabletop exercises and theoretical plans...

How NOT to f-up your security incident response
2025-03-10 12:42

Experts say that the way you handle things after the criminals break in can make things better or much, much worse Feature Experiencing a ransomware infection or other security breach ranks among...

The 5 stages of incident response grief
2025-03-05 16:00

Whether we recognize it or not, anytime an incident occurs, it sets off the grieving process. But grief isn’t a bad thing: it’s how we process our emotional reactions and move on. That’s precisely...

AWS offers incident response service
2024-12-02 12:06

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new service to help organizations prepare for and recover from ransomware attacks, account takeovers, data breaches, and other security events: AWS...

Modernizing incident response in the AI era
2024-11-29 04:30

In this Help Net Security video, Gourav Nagar, Director of Information Security at Bill, discusses modernizing incident response in the era of AI and the cloud: Why this issue is important for...

5 Ways Behavioral Analytics is Revolutionizing Incident Response
2024-11-12 11:00

Behavioral analytics, long associated with threat detection (i.e. UEBA or UBA), is experiencing a renaissance. Once primarily used to identify suspicious activity, it’s now being reimagined as a...

From Breach to Recovery: Designing an Identity-Focused Incident Response Playbook
2024-09-16 11:33

Imagine this... You arrive at work to a chaotic scene. Systems are down, panic is in the air. The culprit? Not a rogue virus, but a compromised identity. The attacker is inside your walls,...

Enhancing Incident Response Readiness with Wazuh
2024-08-05 10:16

The Wazuh active response module triggers actions in response to specific events on monitored endpoints. Wazuh active response automatically executes some specific actions in response to certain security alerts by default, on both Windows and Linux endpoints.

4 key steps to building an incident response plan
2024-07-04 04:00

What are the key components of an effective security incident response strategy? An effective security incident response strategy includes four key components that work together to ensure a rapid and effective response to cybersecurity issues.

The importance of access controls in incident response
2024-05-17 09:30

The worst time to find out your company doesn't have adequate access controls is when everything is on fire. That's why having adequate identity access management policies in place - which include both authorization and authentication - is especially critical when it comes to your incident management tooling.