Cyber Incidents – ECSC Top Tips #8 – ALL Incidents Are Preventable
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Welcome to #8 in a new series of helpful tips for your next cyber incident response. Based on over 20 years of cyber incident response work, for clients of all sizes and sectors, ECSC is your ideal partner when you need it most.
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All Incidents Are Preventable
Believe it!
Why? Because it is true.
And, even if it wasn't, it would still be a good belief because it would lead you to improve your security and focus on prevention.
The fact is, after over two decades experience of incident response, I have never seen (or heard of) an incident that wasn't preventable.
Yes, you might have some specialist knowledge of one or two incidents that were VERY difficult to prevent. However, these are not representative of the real world experience for 99.9% of organisations. And, they were preventable!?
Perhaps you're thinking: ”how could I have prevented the Solarwinds breach?”
Well, some of my clients did download the compromised update. However, having correctly restricted outbound traffic from their Solarwinds installation, they prevented a breach and could see evidence of the attempted communication to Russia in their 24/7 monitoring systems.
So, don't fall for the 'it will happen to us one day' myth. Prevent first. Then put effective detection in place to catch incidents early and respond to prevent escalation to data loss and/or ransomware.
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All the best with your cyber security projects.
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