The features all Incident Response Plans need to have
Summary: Cisco Talos reports that the number of data breaches in 2021 had already exceeded 2020's total, citing ITRC, and argues defenders must move from reactive tools like host-based antivirus, firewalls and secure web gateways to proactive planning. An incident response plan is described as the core document framing an organization's IR capabilities, supplemented by playbooks, and kept current through tabletop, red team and penetration test exercises plus post-incident lessons learned.
Bottom line: Talos notes the cybersecurity department must be successful all the time while an adversary only needs to be right once, and that ad-hoc response leaves two responders investigating the same artifacts and repeating the same containment actions at 3 a.m. on a Sunday.
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