Incident response plans are an important part of any security team’s repertoire, but figuring out where to start can be difficult. Unfortunately, it’s not a matter of if an incident happens but when.

Quick, find a copy of your agency’s cybersecurity incident response plan. Pull that binder off the shelf or call up an electronic copy. OK, now that you have it, let me ask you a few questions. How ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many security teams are operating with incident response plans that haven’t been updated — or even looked at — in months or years. That’s a big mistake. While revising documentation is nobody’s idea ...

Every organization that monitors for security threats must have a plan for handling a threat once it's discovered. Avoiding cyberthreats entirely would be ideal, but that is not reality. An incident ...

Like all CIOs, Darryl Lemecha worries about viruses and hackers, data center problems and technology meltdowns. But what separates his worried mind from many others is a detailed incident response ...

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 ...

It's human nature to procrastinate, especially when people aren't quite sure of the right way to approach a task. But when it comes to an incident response (IR) plan, the time to develop one is before ...

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 ...

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 ...