Response Playbook a Necessity

A response playbook may be one of the most important documents that senior management ever signs in terms of protecting an organisation against disasters. It helps you understand what you have got, where it is, and then articulates the processes for how you are going to protect it. During an incident it expedites response, shortens conversations, and puts everyone – literally – on the same page. However, one size does not fit all. While templates are useful, it is essential that your playbook fits with the roles, responsibilities, and objectives of your organization. It should be a collaborative effort with the entire IT team to ensure all assets, programs and endpoints are logged, backed-up, accessible and able to be investigated.

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Emerging Technologies

Emerging technologies are the backbone of many organisations’ growth strategies, but their implementation needs to be managed with security in mind. The share of jobs requiring artificial Intelligence, or AI, for example, has increased by 450% since 2013, according to Adobe, and the growing use of AI systems will lead to the expansion of existing threats, the introduction of new threats and a change to the typical character of threats. It is also anticipated that by 2021, 94% of data will be handled through cloud platforms, according to Cisco.

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Cloud Services Security Threats

If your security strategy for cloud services is based on defending a single location, you will need to handle the constantly changing borders of a cloud-based system. Your employees may access your cloud services and your sensitive data via any number of devices – desktops, laptops, notebooks, and smartphones – over everything from your internet provider to a 3G or 4G network in a café or airport. In effect, cloud services make traditional security controls much less manageable.

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Critical Vulnerabilities detected by F-Secure’s RADAR

A critical vulnerability that allows an attacker to intercept and manipulate emails and other network traffic, including making network services inaccessible, was recently discovered and can now be detected by F-Secure’s EDR solution RADAR. Called SIGRed, the vulnerability was in the Windows DNS Server which is an essential component of any Windows’ network environment and Microsoft has recently issued an urgent patch for it.

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Updates to F-Secure’s RDR

F-Secure have made several new major feature updates to their Rapid Detection & Response (RDR) solution, including a new Dashboard, Response Walkthrough and Response Action.

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Be sure to consider some of the cyber threats out there and consider these tips for protecting yourself and your devices. Until our next mailer, you can check out all the great resources we have available on our website.

The Cybervision Team

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