Category Archives: Incident Response Plan

A Journey in Organizational Resilience: Privacy

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Privacy concerns may not be the first issue that comes to mind when building an enterprise cyber resilience plan. However, you should expect them to gain prominence. For perspective, consider for a moment that the NIST Privacy Framework is a relatively new tool. It was only first deployed in January 2020.  Even ISO only released […]

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Detections That Can Help You Identify Ransomware

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One of the benefits of being part of a global research-driven incident response firm like X-Force Incidence Response (IR) is that the team has the ability to take a step back and analyze incidents, identifying trends and commonalities that span geographies, industries and affiliations. Leveraging that access and knowledge against the ransomware threat has revealed […]

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What Happens to Victims When a Ransomware Gang Vanishes?

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Not long after launching a major supply chain attack in July 2021, the REvil ransomware gang went offline. The group’s infrastructure, including its surface and dark web portals used for ransom negotiations and data leaks, shut down on July 12, according to Bleeping Computer. Russian digital crime forum XSS banned Unknown, a user believed to […]

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A Journey in Organizational Resilience: Crisis Management

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So far in this organizational resilience journey, we have focused mainly on the planning phase, or, as some call it, ‘left of the boom’. For a moment, let’s look at a ‘right of the boom’ (post-incident) theme: crisis management (CM), an important component of your cyber resilience planning. A good CM plan will be part of […]

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How to Protect Against Deepfake Attacks and Extortion

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Cybersecurity professionals are already losing sleep over data breaches and how to best protect their employers from attacks. Now they have another nightmare to stress over — how to spot a deepfake.  Deepfakes are different because attackers can easily use data and images as a weapon. And those using deepfake technology can be someone from […]

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Privileged Access Management: The Future of Cyber Resilience

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Attacks against critical infrastructure and government agencies have been surging. Some attackers want to extort money; others intend to steal data. But the victims all have one thing in common: they need to be able to fend off attacks and recover so they can continue to perform their functions. That’s where cyber resilience comes in, […]

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Dissecting Sodinokibi Ransomware Attacks: Bringing Incident Response and Intelligence Together in the Fight

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Ransomware actors are specializing, collaborating and assisting each other to conduct sophisticated attacks that are becoming increasingly difficult to prevent. Combating these groups effectively similarly requires a team approach — specialization, understanding tactics and techniques and how to counter them and cutting off activity at its source. Arguably, it has never been more imperative that […]

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How to Quantify the Actual Cost of a Data Breach for Your Own Organization

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As business leaders, we need to know what the biggest risks to our organizations are. All organizations face numerous disruptive challenges in today’s business environment that can create significant new business opportunities, but also can increase potential cybersecurity risks to the organizations. To address these issues, we need to focus our scarce resources on those […]

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How Ransomware Trends Are Changing Cyber Insurance

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The world of cyber insurance is in a state of flux. The reason: ransomware creates huge financial impacts. And how it will change insurance in the future is unclear. The insurance industry is struggling to develop cyber liability insurance offerings. Meanwhile, history is proving to be a poor guide to what comes next.  Welcome to […]

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Thriving in Chaos: How Cyber Resilience Works

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In cybersecurity as in most jobs, problems don’t happen one at a time, you’re bound to have a few at once. Speakers at the RSA Conference 2021 talked about this in terms of maintaining cyber resilience in chaos. So, what does the buzzword ‘cyber resilience’ really mean? And why is it important to be able […]

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