Combatting Cybercrime with an Incident Response Plan
Based on the cybersecurity news proliferating in the mainstream media today – from ransomware incidents to data breaches of massive proportions – it has become clear that organizations need to...
Incident response
Ransomware: The race you don’t want to lose
In the race to detect and contain ransomware on their networks, many organizations fail before they are out of the gate. The reason has very little to do with technology, and more so a great deal to do with process. “But we bought all the good
The Haves & Have Nots: Threat Management Maturity
IT departments regularly ask us questions about their security posture, their security concerns, and specifically, the makeup of their Threat Management (TM) organizations. Generally speaking, Threat Management includes anything in the
A “quick” guide to QUIC
Intelligence Gathering 101 Traffic analysis is rapidly becoming critical for threat analysis and incident response teams, and a choke point on their capability to be effective. Performing analysis on incoming threats requires security professionals to
NetFlow AND PCAP (not or)
As digital transformation sweeps across the world, there is a driving need for more effective logging and data recording for incident response. In today’s IT world, your agency’s Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) must have the capability to
Detection in Depth
Defense in depth is a well understood and widely implemented approach that can better secure your organization’s network. It works by placing multiple layers of defense throughout the network to create a series of overlapping and redundant defenses.
Incident Response Goes to Hollywood
Having personally spent a lot of time at Fortune 500’s, I know that individuals tend to develop blinders when dedicated to an organization, and begin to accept that things are done a certain way, and there is an order about things. It may come as a
Protecting Data Globally: A Modern Mandate
Data is the currency of the knowledge economy. This makes it a highly valuable commodity – for organizations and cybercriminals alike. As threats to data security mount, organizations must find...
Calling all Incident Responders
We are happy to announce the final schedule for IRespondCon, a conference that is specifically designed for incident responders. IRespondCon is held annually at OpenDNS HQ and offers a day of free training, presentations, and networking with some of