From the course: Building and Auditing a Cybersecurity Program

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Incident management to respond to a cyber attack

Incident management to respond to a cyber attack

From the course: Building and Auditing a Cybersecurity Program

Incident management to respond to a cyber attack

- How likely is your organization to experience a cybersecurity incident? Chances are much more likely than you think. It takes just one tiny gap in your cybersecurity system or a single click on the wrong link to grant cyber criminals access to your organization's systems. Cybersecurity incident can potentially cause damage to your organization from which you may not be able to recover from. A cybersecurity incident is any attempted or actual unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or destruction of information. A cybersecurity incident covers a wide variety of security violations from ransomware, data breaches to denial of service attacks. The process of identifying, analyzing and determining an organization's response to cybersecurity incidents is called incident management. Incident management comprises a set of policies and procedures that you can use to identify, contain and mitigate cyber attacks. The…

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