In many instances, we learn that companies have an incident response plan that looks good on paper but not in practice. The plan cannot just live in a manual that sits on a shelf. It needs to be a strategy that everyone agrees to, can evolve over time, is rehearsed often and can be carried out immediately when the...
Incident response plans must be carefully designed to meet the needs of a specific organization, says attorney Ron Raether, who outlines important legal considerations.
Employees at Mesa Systems, a residential, commercial and logistics-based transportation solutions provider, were being tricked with highly sophisticated spear phishing emails causing much confusion in the workplace and a ton of overhead for the IT Department. So what did they do?
This case study reviews how Mesa...
Your company is not alone. Phishing threatens every organization around the world, large and small. Attackers consider phishing a go-to technique to gain access to the network because it yields great success. With limited IT staff, budget constraints and employees working on any device from anywhere, keeping up with...
The city of Atlanta's ransomware outbreak cleanup and response tab has hit $2.6 million after a March attack froze corporate servers, employees' PCs and resident-facing portals. Some security experts say the breach response funds would have been put to better use preventing the outbreak in the first place.
Incident response is a critical pillar of an effective endpoint security program, one that will gain importance as GDPR enforcement comes into play on May 25. Organizations must be ready to react if and when an incident occurs in order to meet the stringent requirements that apply during an incident.
The U.S. Federal Government wants its agencies to modernize their IT systems, primarily by maximizing the use of cloud platforms. But IT teams are finding this transformation challenging. Investing in IT modernization can lead to more agility, improved resilience and security and, in the long term, better citizen...
The high-profile breaches of Fortune 100 companies are the ones that get the headlines, but small and midsized businesses should not breathe any sighs of relief. They are very much still targets, says Austin Murphy of CrowdStrike. He offers cybersecurity advice to SMBs.
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Technological advances that are sweeping the financial sector by storm have brought new ways for users to access their data on the go but it also presents new challenges for financial institutions to protect their customers' personal data. Every financial institution needs to implement a comprehensive approach to...
CynergisTek's 2018 report aggregated ratings from security assessments performed at hundreds of healthcare organizations in 2017 to reveal an average 45% conformance with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF). The report found that of the NIST CSF five Core Elements, organizations had the lowest ratings in detecting...
The high-profile breaches of Fortune 100 companies are the ones that get the headlines, but small and midsized businesses should not breathe any sighs of relief. They are very much still targets, says Austin Murphy of CrowdStrike. He offers cybersecurity advice to SMBs.
During this workshop, Troutman Sanders partner Ron Raether will discuss the benefits of table top exercises. He then will explain how to conduct an effective exercise walking through mock incidents and explaining the process. Participants will:
Walk through several common incident scenarios and observe lessons to be...
The technologies and processes that businesses deploy today are so tightly linked to their customers and markets that the
boundary between the company's internal operations and external
ecosystem (i.e., customers, markets, competitors, partners,
regulators) is rapidly disappearing. Business leaders are
...
Many banking institutions boast of being "digital first" and enabling "omnichannel banking." But are they fully aware of the new fraud risks they also are inviting? This whitepaper takes a deep dive into discussing how to mitigate omnichannel fraud and why it is not just a banking issue. There is a need for...
CynergisTek's 2018 report aggregated ratings from security assessments performed at hundreds of healthcare organizations in 2017 to reveal an average 45% conformance with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF). The report found that of the NIST CSF five Core Elements, organizations had the lowest ratings in detecting...
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