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Following a global consultation, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is launching new ethics guidelines for incident response and security teams on Global Ethics Day. ethicsfIRST provides guidance for cybersecurity professionals on how to conduct themselves professionally and ethically during incidents. Inspired by Earth Day, Global Ethics Day provides an opportunity for organizations to explore the meaning of ethics in international affairs.
Proactive cybersecurity programs include comprehensive activities that involve not only the IT and security teams, but also the CEO and boards of directors. Examples of key proactive activities include identifying risk tolerance, defining governance structures, and developing comprehensive security strategies. Throughout this article, we will review key domains where organizations can proactively fortify their cybersecurity measures. COVID-19 has increased threat activity and created unique changes — and increased risk — in IT environments. Now is the time to review some “quick hit” areas where you can bolster your cybersecurity and execute your winning strategy.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined with public and private-sector partners to conduct an interagency Tabletop Exercise (TTX) called “National Harbor 2020 – Recovery Phase Exercise,” September 29 – 30, to test the processes and plans required by regional government and business partners following a notional catastrophic incident at National Harbor outside of Washington, D.C.
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) jointly honored Ian Charles Cook and Don Stikvoort in the second edition of The Incident Response Hall of Fame.
We talk to David “moose” Wolpoff, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Randori, about Black Hats’ processes for finding and exploiting weaknesses in software.
If you've done your job correctly, you will never ask "now what?" when a cyberattack occurs, because you'll already have an incident response plan in place that prescribes exactly what you need to do.
Multiple intelligence agencies are releasing a joint cybersecurity advisory on technical approaches to incident response and best practices to remediating malicious cyber activity.
The Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an advisory guidance document to help non-federal public and private entities better understand the federal laws and regulations that may apply to the use of capabilities to detect and mitigate threats posed by Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) operations.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was joined by government, industry and international partners for Cyber Storm 2020, a national cyber exercise designed to simulate response to a cyber crisis impacting the nation’s critical infrastructure.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced the creation of a new Rapid Response Election Security Cyber Unit (RESCU), a highly-trained team of election security experts who will help protect Colorado’s elections from cyber-attacks, foreign interference, and disinformation campaigns.