Protecting major events: An incident response blueprint
Summary: Cisco Talos Incident Response published a new version of its "Protecting major events: An incident response blueprint" whitepaper, which outlines 13 critical focus areas for organizing committees and participating businesses securing events such as sports, conferences, expos and inter-government meetings. The paper notes that phishing remained the leading initial access technique, that the percentage of ransomware and pre-ransomware cases increased, and that finance and public administration tied as the top-targeted industries.
Why it matters: Major events depend on vendors, hospitality teams and service providers working from one consistent strategy, and Talos reports phishing is still the way attackers get in while ransomware cases rose - a combination that puts the whole event ecosystem, not just one organizer, in the blast radius.
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