An incident response plan (IRP) is an organisation’s individualised structured set of procedures and guidelines that they follow when encountering a security incident or a disruptive event. These may ...

Continuous monitoring is a buzz phrase come back to life thanks to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and the Homeland Security Department telling government agencies to implement information ...

Cybersecurity in higher education presents a unique and evolving challenge. As someone who has spent years in incident response, digital forensics and security engineering, I’ve seen firsthand the ...

CEO of IT GOAT, responsible for streamlining IT Operations for our clients by providing outsourced IT Services delivered by IT GOAT. In simple terms, an incident response plan, or IR plan, is the ...

Many organizations have adopted a herd mentality by assigning the security incident responsibility to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) or senior security official (CISO). Unfortunately, this myopic ...

For many security decision-makers, the real challenge is communicating the ongoing IR process to their management. Every security professional knows it’s only a matter of time before their ...

A data breach can have a devastating effect on an organization. According to the Ponemon Institute’s annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average total cost of a data breach is now $3.92 million, ...