Articles Tagged with ''incident response''

5 minutes with Troy Gill - Putting together the perfect threat hunter team

August 26, 2021

How do you find, hire and create the perfect threat hunter team? Troy Gill, Manager of Security Research and Zix’s AppRiver Threat Research Team, speaks to what it takes to be an exceptional threat hunter and what qualities they need to be successful.

The dangers within: What’s hiding in your network?

Barb Rigel

August 9, 2021

Sumo Logic research reports that 56% of companies with more than 10,000 employees receive more than 1,000 security alerts every day, and 93% say they cannot address all alerts the same day. Cybercriminals are also aware of alert fatigue and count on IT to ignore many security alerts. So, what can you do?

Global cyber intrusion activity more than doubled in first half of 2021

August 5, 2021

The volume of cyber intrusion activity globally jumped 125% in the first half of 2021 compared with the same period last year, according to the Cyber Investigations, Forensics & Response (CIFR) mid-year update from Accenture.

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COVID-19 Heroes

Georgetown University’s Office of Emergency Management supports COVID-19 response

Marc Barbiere came to Georgetown about five months before the COVID-19 pandemic, taking over the recently-restructured Office of Emergency Management (OEM) in order to coordinate the University’s efforts to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies.

Maggie Shein

August 4, 2021

Marc Barbiere came to Georgetown about five months before the COVID-19 pandemic struck with the goal of providing a robust framework for the University to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. Barbiere and the newly restructured Office of Emergency Management put together a framework to streamline and organize emergency and pandemic response to continue operations no matter the cause of disruption.

CISA, partners hold annual election security exercise

July 26, 2021

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in coordination with the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED), hosted the nation’s annual election security exercise last week, bringing together federal, state, local, and private sector partners for the fourth annual Tabletop the Vote. More than 1,000 participants ran through hypothetical scenarios affecting election operations to share practices around cyber and physical incident planning, preparedness, identification, response, and recovery.

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Four ways to optimize your red team operations

If done right, red teams put an organization’s security controls, policies, response and training to the test using the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of real-world adversaries, providing value to any security program.

Brady Bloxham

July 12, 2021

Red teams put an organization’s security controls, policies, response and training to the test using the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of real-world adversaries. It is an essential activity in any security program, but it only provides value if done right.

Reza Zaheri joins Quantum Metric as Chief Information Security Officer

July 9, 2021

Reza Zaheri joins Quantum Metrics as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Bringing over 18 years of experience in cybersecurity, digital forensics and incident response, he will be responsible for maintaining Quantum Metric's data privacy and security.

US Secret Service hosts cybersecurity incident response exercise with public and private sector partners

July 7, 2021

The U.S. Secret Service hosted a virtual Cyber Incident Response Simulation with business leaders, law enforcement and other private sector partners focused on ransomware and cryptocurrency attacks and mitigation strategies.

FBI designates 40 shootings in 2020 as active shooter incidents

July 7, 2021

The FBI has designated 40 shootings in 2020 as active shooter incidents. The FBI defines an active shooter as one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.

CISA, local partners conduct tabletop exercise for the U.S. Olympic Team Track and Field trials

June 10, 2021

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), private sector partners, local first responders, and state and federal partners held a tabletop exercise to test emergency response and recovery operations in preparation for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Track & Field, which will be held June 18-27 at Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus.

Digital threats to executives and other high-profile employees are evolving faster than most corporate protection programs. Learn why modern executive protection programs require data-driven, intelligence-led strategies to keep pace with the magnitude of today’s threats.

Learn how modern security teams are evolving from alert-driven workflows to outcome-driven operations and how AI is enabling faster, more confident decisions at every stage of the incident response lifecycle.