What is incident response? Incident response (sometimes called cybersecurity incident response) is an organization’s systems and procedures for finding and responding to cyberthreats, security breaches, or cyberattacks. The goal of event response is to prevent cybercrime before it happens, and to minimize the cost and business disruption caused by any cybercrime that occurs. An enterprise
Cyberattacks are frequent and indiscriminate, targeting small and large companies alike. Research shows that over 60% of businesses around the globe have endured a cybersecurity incident, and over 50% of those attacks had been directed to smaller companies. Handling a cyber scam may deplete a business’s resources. For example, a denial-of-service attack against INRS, a
The human element contributes something to almost every successful cyberattack. Occasionally, it even causes it. You have probably seen several similar headlines lately: people get hacked, according to these headlines: Here’s another one: And another one: Amid the high-tech technological tools hackers now utilize, social engineering remains the primary threat that is still the most
