One thing all companies have in common if they’re doing business in the e-commerce world today is the need to secure and protect their infrastructure and sensitive data. There are both state and ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Every 39 seconds some company is being hit by a cyberattack. Security incidents are a ...

An incident response tabletop exercise is a discussion-based practice that uses a hypothetical situation to coach a technical or executive audience through the cybersecurity incident response life ...

An incident response plan is a critical part of any cybersecurity portfolio, but plans need to be tested and practiced to be executed successfully. Cybersecurity incidents are dynamic situations, and ...

Planning for the seemingly unlikely event of a severe cybersecurity incident seems unwieldy and time-consuming for many organizations. But consider this: According to the Ponemon Institute, 90% of ...

Zeus Kerravala is the founder of and principal analyst at ZK Research. Follow him on Twitter @zkerravala. Partnering with an outside organization on these exercises can offer additional benefits.

Suppose you have invested considerable time and money creating an Incident Response Plan (IRP) and delivering annual Tabletop Exercises (TTE) within your organization in the hopes that these efforts ...

It's Monday morning, 8 a.m. You walk into the office and, on your computer screen, you witness something you've only ever experienced in your nightmares. "Boom! Your organization is hit with a ...

There’s a new, fun way to run a realistic incident response tabletop exercise, and it’s called Backdoors and Breaches. Inspired by Dungeons and Dragons (B&B instead of D&D), the game includes a pack ...

A goal is not a strategy; a goal’s achievement depends on the availability of necessary resources and the ability of those wielding them to apply them successfully on the task at hand. Once all ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. - The depot hosted off-depot emergency response personnel here Feb. 17 to exercise measures that would be taken on depot and in the surrounding community if an active shooter ...

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