An incident response plan is a well-documented plan that includes a series of phases that helps IT security professionals recognize and properly react to cybersecurity incidents. According to Gartner, the SANS Institute (founded 1989) is one of the world’s premier cybersecurity training organizations. The SANS Institute methodology includes 6 incident response phases as follows: Preparation, […]

We all want our sensitive data to be protected, yet some users often rely on weak passwords because memorizing complex passwords is painful. This approach is dangerous. Unless you want to constantly safeguard a hard copy list of all your passwords, you should consider setting up a password manager. Such a solution can help you […]

A Managed Detection and Response (MDR) security solution is a high-level 24/7/365 security control that includes a range of security activities including cloud-managed security for organizations that cannot maintain their own security operations center (SOC). MDR services combine threat intelligence, advanced analytics, and human expertise in incident investigation and response deployed at the host and […]

Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) is a complex endpoint security system that combines real-time monitoring and collection of endpoint data with rules-based automated response and analysis capabilities. The main functions of an EDR security solution are: To monitor and collect data from endpoints that could indicate a threat; To analyze this data to identify threat […]