Forming a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is a complicated affair. It involves a certain combination of staff, processes and technologies.
Luckily, numerous incident management frameworks are available for the rescue. They all aim to provide a structured approach for establishing incident response teams in your organisation.
This post provides a general overview of the most popular incident management frameworks.
Incident response runbook (aka. playbook, “use case”) is a written guidance for identifying, containing, eradicating and recovering from cyber security incidents.
Check out this practical guide that walks you through the runbook development process for tackling phishing campaigns.
Even pure technologists have to write security policies in an enterprise environment. As a subject matter on something, technology experts might be asked to contribute to the Software Development or the Internet Acceptable Use policies.
However this leads to policies that nobody reads. Copy-and-paste texts, dry language and 60-page long documents. Rings a bell, anyone?
In the following post I reveal a few tricks up my sleeves for writing simple, crystal-clear and straightforward security policies.