Incident Response Team
Information Protection Center: Stage 1 - Active: Response Phase
The highest priority task for the IPC is to respond to incidents as they occur. This may involve working with the affected organization to determine the cause of the incident ...
Document added on Jan. 16, 2011Information Protection Centre: Stage 1 - Active: Assessment Phase
Auto-Response IDS: Many ID systems can be set up to automatically respond with some predefined set of activities upon detection of specified events. In this case some reasonable assessment process ...
Document added on April 21, 2011Information Protection Center: Stage 0-Passive
This particular IPC began with a relative "green field" for security. It had the creation of policies, guidelines and awareness initiative as its initial responsibilities. Most organizations will have some ...
Document added on April 3, 2011Information Protection Center: Stage 1 - Active Protection Phase
The IPC's goal is to continuously improve the organization's security posture. The most important step in this is to establish strong protection. This protection comes from knowing the threats and ...
Document added on Jan. 2, 2011IPC Overview
Organizations rely on their networks and systems. Viral outbreaks are occurring sporadically. Their firewalls are being probed for vulnerabilities on a daily basis. It is highly likely that they will ...
Document added on Jan. 21, 2011Information Protection Centers - An Organizational Approach to Security
An IPC is a means to achieve this alignment. It is a name for an entity that carries out a wide spectrum of security activities and services necessary to secure ...
Document added on Jan. 24, 2011Information Protection Center: Stage 1 - Active: Detection Phase
Incidents: The IPC acts as a Point of Contact for security reporting and assistance. If someone detects some unusual or suspicious event related to the organization's networks, computers or information, ...
Document added on Jan. 10, 2011Information Protection Center: Stage 2 - Integrative
Scope of Improvement: At the Integrative stage the IPC either has direct or collaborative effect on passive security (policies and awareness), active security (IRT) as well as architectural decisions. The ...
Document added on Jan. 11, 2011Keys to Successful Incident Response Teams
Incident Response Teams (IRTs) initially evolved in response to the growing threat of viruses and hacker attempts. In late 1988, a worm infected nearly 10 percent of the computers existing ...
Document added on April 15, 2011How to Design a Useful Incident Response Policy
Perhaps you're the Information Security Officer for your company. Or, maybe you're a technology auditor. Maybe you're in charge of data security for your university's computing department. Regardless of your ...
Document added on May 15, 2011