Cybersecurity Incident Response : How to Contain, Eradicate, and Recover From Incidents

Create, maintain, and manage a continual cybersecurity incident response program using the practical steps presented in this book. Don't allow your cybersecurity incident responses (IR) to fall short of the mark due to lack of planning, preparation, leadership, and management support. Surviving an incident, or a breach, requires the best response possible. This book provides practical guidance for the containment, eradication, and recovery from cybersecurity events and incidents. The book takes the approach that incident response should be a continual program. Leaders must understand the organizational environment, the strengths and weaknesses of the program and team, and how to strategically respond. Successful behaviors and actions required for each phase of incident response are explored in the book. Straight from NIST 800-61, these actions include: Planning and practicing Detection Containment Eradication Post-incident actions What You’ll Learn Know the sub-categories of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework Understand the components of incident response Go beyond the incident response plan Turn the plan into a program that needs vision, leadership, and culture to make it successful Be effective in your role on the incident response team Who This Book Is For Cybersecurity leaders, executives, consultants, and entry-level professionals responsible for executing the incident response plan when something goes wrong Front Matter ....Pages i-xv The Significance of Incident Response (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 1-10 Necessary Prerequisites (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 11-16 Incident Response Frameworks (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 17-46 Leadership, Teams, and Culture (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 47-64 The Incident Response Strategy (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 65-70 Cyber Risks and the Attack Life Cycle (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 71-85 Detection and Identification of Events (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 87-98 Containment (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 99-116 Eradication, Recovery, and Post-incident Review (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 117-123 Continuous Monitoring of Incident Response Program (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 125-135 Incident Response Story (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 137-149 This Is a Full-Time Job (Eric C. Thompson)....Pages 151-159 Back Matter ....Pages 161-176