Articles on Incident Response

• Career Security Trends and Your Career Plans
  Information security trends like operationalization, hypersegregation, and active defense create opportunities for both IT operations and security professionals. Operations personnel can expand into...
• Incident Response Why Organizations Don't Prepare for Information Security Incidents
  Organizations fail to prepare for security incidents not because they're unaware of threats, but because they believe they personally won't be attacked and underestimate the disruptive effects of...
• Cheat Sheets IT and Cybersecurity Cheat Sheets
  As much as we try to be proactive about cybersecurity, IT planning, or project management, we get distracted, or procrastinate. These cheat sheets and checklists are designed to assist professionals...
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• Threat Intelligence When Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) Entered the Mainstream Enterprise
  Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) are custom, incident-specific signatures that organizations use to detect attacker artifacts. Mandiant popularized the term around 2007, and by 2013 the concept gained...
• Malware Who Was the First to Use the Term Exfiltration in Cybersecurity?
  The term "exfiltration" in cybersecurity—referring to data leaving a compromised network—appears to originate from military terminology about withdrawing troops from dangerous positions. The earliest...