All pages tagged with incident
Is your risk management plan as good as it gets?
Not all security incidents can be prevented, nor is it cost-effective to try. Each control should be evaluated on its own merits prior to implementation. Issues to consider: direct costs, ...
Written by: Shawna McAlearney and added on Feb. 15, 2011The Need for Information Security in Today's Economy
The advancement of technology, the Internet, and information sharing has had both positive and negative impacts. One of the negative impacts was the large increase in new "information" threats. The ...
Written by: Jeff Tarte and added on April 26, 2011Building an Incident Response Program To Suit Your Business
The purpose of this paper is to outline the key concepts of an Incident Response Program (IRP). Although every organization is unique, there are basics components that should be included ...
Document added on Feb. 10, 2011CodeRed II: Incident Handling Process and Procedures
The 6-step method for incident handling is to prepare, detect, contain, eradicate, recover, and lessons learned. This paper uses the CodeRed II virus as a template to generate questions to ...
Written by: Unknown and added on Jan. 1, 2011Collection and Dissemination of Computer and Internet Security Related Information
Ongoing advances in technology and the growth of the Internet are introducing not only an increase in the number of vulnerabilities being found, but also an increase in the complexity ...
Written by: Scott Fox and added on Jan. 27, 2011Computer Forensic Legal Standards and Equipment
This paper addresses an issue of increasing importance to companies in this modern era. Computer Incident Response Teams (CIRTs), network security, and intellectual property (IP) security are growing
Document added on Jan. 9, 2011Computer Forensics - We've Had an Incident, Who Do We Get to Investigate?
Computer forensics is used to conduct investigations into computer related incidents, whether the incident is an external intrusion into your system, internal fraud, or staff breaching your security p
Document added on June 12, 2011Computer Incident Response Team
No company's security policy should be considered complete until procedures are put into place that allow for the handling and recovery from even the most devastating of incidents. One possible ...
Written by: Michelle Borodkin and added on Feb. 4, 2011Corporate Incident Handling Guidelines
Incidents are an unfortunate fact of life in any systems environment. They can be extremely visible and disruptive (eg: widespread virus outbreaks) or entirely unnoticed but extremely damaging (eg: loss ...
Written by: David Theunissen and added on June 13, 2011From Events to Incidents
In all computer incident handling situation, some form of computer forensic is required in order to support the eradication, recovery and applying the lesson learned. As more data on computer ...
Written by: Charles Pham and added on March 16, 2011