Windows Systems Breach Detection & Mitigation

I am writing this article to document some information and steps anyone can use to detect and mitigate compromise on their Windows systems. This article will not be highly technical but a resource on Windows systems breach detection and mitigation that someone can use to check the company procedures and quickly identify policies that should be in place and what should be included in those.

At least 600 million attacks per day were officially recorded in Windows systems based on Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024, without including the number of attacks that Microsoft is unaware of, which certainly raises the number much higher. Such attacks have a significant cost, with the global average data breach cost of $4.96 million per incident based on IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report. Also, Studies estimate a 3-5% revenue drop, which might increase the price by losing clients or impacting the company’s stock if it is in the stock market.

There are two steps the Detection & Mitigation.

In Detection, we can include the following Categories:

Network Traffic Analysis

Analyzing traffic lets us pinpoint unusual outbound connections and check for large data transfers.

User and Account Monitoring

Failed login attempts and unknown new user accounts might be an indication of a breach as well.

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