THERE’S NO PLACE FOR GUESSWORK IN CYBER-ATTACK INVESTIGATIONS

RESPONDING TO TODAY’S THREAT LANDSCAPE

You can’t ignore the headlines. From the Irish health service to the Missouri teachers’ pension system, we’ve seen that any organization, at any time, can suffer a cybersecurity attack, resulting in a devastating data breach. And IT pros are well aware that even the most sophisticated defenses can be overturned by human error or malicious internal actions.

For the past year, organizations have witnessed more (and more aggressive) data breaches than ever before. The probability – and fear – that it’s likely only a matter of time before their own network comes under attack intensifies the pressure on IT and cybersecurity pros. Beyond the endpoint security, firewalls and other protective mechanisms that they have already set up, they need to seek out additional ways to bolster their network defenses.

An important element of recovering from a cybersecurity incident is a having in place a coordinated process for analyzing, reporting, and remediating as quickly as possible after the attack. But manual investigations involve too much time and too many variables to constitute an adequate post-breach strategy. For a large organization, imagine the sheer number of investigators required, assets to be reviewed, geographic locations and remote workers that get in the way of achieving a timely result.

Factors such as these, plus the need to gather data in a manner that will be defensible in a court of law, has given rise to fast-growing demand for robust post-breach response tools. And this is where digital forensic tools come in.