Effective Incident Response Plans

Introduction

Every business needs a continuous monitoring of its activities. In some case, the management of the business may decide to implement new decisions in their operation. In such cases, the incident monitoring tools keep a record of all the activities that include the changes in the file system, modification of window registry among other changes.  One of the major benefits of implementing IR strategy is that; all the activities undertaken over time can be created easily and thus speed up the incident response process as well as security investigations. The channel of creating a continuous system that can be used in monitoring the business’s activities may not be easy or a quick one, but the final result can clearly identify data breach as it occurs (Johnson 70). Therefore, integrating the system with a given business incident response tool can help in streamlining the response process so as to curb incidents as they occur thus reduce additional collateral damage.

Benefits of effective incident response plans

Improved decision-making

The business can easily respond to those who violate the appropriate scale level as the business can establish the person responsible for making the right decision when an incident occurs. The company can also establish that the malicious code has been affected by the core application and thus quickly stop the access to the network. Because of the quick action taken, the organization can reduce the loss associated with revenue (Johnson 75). In addition, when the organization develops a standard procedure for isolating their networks, those managing the system can easily make follower up and ensure that the business have an efficient system.

Internal coordination

All the business functions must be coordinated across all business functions. For instance, audit, legal, regulatory affairs, and communications must be combined with the IR plans. This ensures every members of the organization can react with quick response to an incident.

SIEM

Most of the businesses find themselves in a massive loss as a result of frauds. Most of the businesses defend their activities with the cyber technologies or tools such as intrusion detection or data-loss. There those determined criminal syndicates or hackers who set their mind on finding a way inside in an organization and get valuable digitized information. Such people are a threat to many businesses as their activities tend to be at high risk, and its critical assets can also be at risk of being taken. More so, the secrets of the business may be exposed and received by their rivals. SIEM guides the response of such breaches through management of cyber security in a way that reduce damage, recovery time and costs as well as increase the confidence of the different stakeholders. In the current version, the system can monitor without the use of intervention that create searches for them to get data back (Whitman & Herbert 280).

Intrusion detection and data loss prevention

Intrusion detection is a management system survived by use of computer and networks. The ID system collects and also analyze information from different areas within a computer or network in order to detect any available breaches that include attacks from within and outside the organization. On the other hand, data loss prevention is mainly related to prevention of data loss to personally identified information. Organization must also ensure that while retrieving the lost data, the customers’ records and patient information as well as the credit card number and the employee information must all be confidential and failure to this, the business may face stiff penalties (GSN Magazine).

Work Cited

GSN Magazine’s. “Automated incident response makes the difference in cyber security”,  2012

Johnson, Leighton. Computer Incident Response and Forensics Team Management: Conducting a Successful Incident Response. , 2014. Internet resource.

Whitman, Michael E, and Herbert J. Mattord. Roadmap to Information Security: For It and Infosec Managers. Boston, MA: Course Technology/Cengage Learning, 2011. Print.