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Digital forensics is growing while being more tied with incident response, according to the latest State of Enterprise Digital Forensics and Incident Response survey from Magnet Forensics. Digital forensics increasingly involved with incident response.

Even with good practices in place, the dynamic nature of vulnerability identification, and ever-increasing attack tools and techniques, vulnerabilities can escape the best defenses and make their way into released products. There are several key strategies and best practices to create an effective PSIRT. Understanding these strategies and best practices ensures that your organization is prepared to manage and address vulnerabilities as they arise effectively.

You may already have an IR plan but regardless of how thorough you might feel it is at this moment, the evolving cyber threat landscape and shifting circumstances within your organization demand regular changes and improvements. What are the attack vectors most popular with threat actors today? The 2022 Unit 42 Incident Response Report found that business email compromise and ransomware attacks are widespread, collectively making up 70% of cases handled by the Unit 42 Incident Response team.

First, make sure that your strategy follows the six steps to complete incident response. Identification: The identification stage is when an incident has been identified - either one that has occurred or is currently in progress.

The best line of defense against holiday hacking schemes is a comprehensive incident response strategy that focuses on end-user vulnerabilities. The heightened number of cybersecurity threats around the holidays underscore just how important it is to have a comprehensive incident response strategy in place, protecting both your employees and your company's digital infrastructure.

The best line of defense against holiday hacking schemes is a comprehensive incident response strategy that focuses on end-user vulnerabilities. The heightened number of cybersecurity threats around the holidays underscore just how important it is to have a comprehensive incident response strategy in place, protecting both your employees and your company's digital infrastructure.

The big story from last month was the LastPass breach, in which an attacker apparently got access to just one part of the LastPass network, but was able to make off with the company's proprietary source code. LastPass has now published an official follow-up report on the incident, based on what it has been able to figure out about the attack and the attackers in the aftermath of the intrusion.

Today's harsh reality is that incident response based on manual efforts is no longer successful for security teams. Staying on top of thousands of daily security alerts is exhausting and is nearly impossible to assess manually, especially for security analysts experiencing alert fatigue, and becoming numb to the endless alerts that come in on a daily basis.

Incident response in the cloud is far simpler than on-premises incident response. There is a catch, though: All the tools you need to do IR reside in the platform of your favorite cloud providers and SaaS products, so you need to do some initial setup to be prepared for an incident.

In this Help Net Security video, Neal Bridges, CISO at Query.ai, talks about the rules organizations need to think about if they way to develop successful incident response (IR) plans. The post...