A zero-day vulnerability is a previously unknown vulnerability in a computer system or application that can be exploited by attackers. These vulnerabilities are called "zero-day" because they are not ...

“Dear Mary” is Troutman Pepper’s Incidents + Investigations team’s advice column. Here, you will find Mary’s answers to questions about anything and everything cyber-related — data breaches, forensic ...

With more information and health data access points than ever before, IT organizations must take security risks seriously. That’s especially true today: According to one report from Risk Based ...

In instructing the government to make "bold changes" and "significant investments" to defend the United States, the Biden administration's recent cybersecurity Executive Order was a welcome and ...

Treat incident response as an engineering system—from asset-aware detection to repeatable analysis and post-incident learning—driving measurable improvements.

It isn’t good enough just to get a process operational again after an interruption. If it takes too long to restore delivery of critical employee or customer services, getting it back online might no ...

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Today, the Cloud Security Alliance has published the "Cloud Security Alliance Medical Device Incident Response Playbook." The playbook is written by Christopher Frenz, assistant vice president of IT ...

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It’s time to update your incident response policies. Typically, an incident response plan lays out a process of identification, containment, investigation, attribution, remediation and communication.

Cybersecurity and data privacy incidents are a disruptive and often traumatizing fact of life for businesses today. These events can be fraught with tension, anxiety, and urgency, involve large sums ...

All companies have to address security incident response. While it’s not uncommon for organizations to have weak prevention and detection capabilities, a company must respond once it has been the ...