The importance of a trusted ecosystem in incident response with Mike Saylor
Mike Saylor, CEO of Blackswan Cybersecurity, talks about building trusted ecosystems for incident response.
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Cyber Security Incident Response: Mitigating Threats Before They Spread
A cyber security Incident Response Plan is a structured approach. It helps organisations manage and mitigate cyber threats before they spread. This plan involves several key components and steps.
Cyber Incident Response in 2025: A Modernized 7-Phase Guide
As cyber threats continue to grow in complexity and frequency, organizations must evolve their response strategies. The year 2025 demands a modern, proactive, and layered approach to dealing with cyber incidents. Whether it’s a ransomware attack, data breach, or insider threat, cyber incident response in 2025 must focus on preparation, swift action, and continuous learning.
Incident Response, Reinvented: Arctic Wolf's Incident360 Retainer
Cyber attacks aren’t a question of if, but when. Yet for many midmarket and small enterprises, the tools and models to prepare for these threats have long been out of reach — often too complex, expensive, or ineffective. Traditional incident response (IR) retainers, designed for a different era, have only added to this challenge by creating financial and operational uncertainty when organizations need clarity the most.
Contingency Planning: What's the Difference between Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity?
Contingency planning is the process of determining how to respond to disruptive events. Most organizations are so dependent on IT resources, and most IT resources are so complex, interdependent, and attack prone, that contingency planning is essential to enable organizations to mitigate the likelihood, impact, and duration of disruptions to IT systems.
8 Essential Elements for an Incident Response Plan
In the first blog of our two-part incident response series, we explained how your organization can jump-start its incident response. In this second part, we’ll focus on the essential elements of an incident response plan—a critical factor for any company trying to recover from an incident quickly and confidently.
Understanding the Value of Incident Response Retainers
Despite growing investments and advances in cybersecurity, incidents and data breaches continue to increase year over year. From the continuous uptick of vulnerabilities to the rapidly expanding human attack surface, it’s clear that as new risk points appear, threat actors are right there, ready to take action.
Why Security Teams Must Rethink Incident Response for Identity Attacks
Blocking a CEO's account to stop an anomaly? It might stop your business too. When implementing Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), security teams must balance robust protection and business continuity. In this clip, our expert explains why blindly blocking access can cause more damage and how identity-proofing methods, like 2FA and push notifications, offer a smarter approach. Rethink your strategy to keep security seamless.
MTTD vs. MTTR: Definition, Differences, & Why They Matter
When a cyberattack occurs, every second counts. Metrics like Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR) are critical benchmarks in cybersecurity, helping organizations evaluate the effectiveness of their Security Operations Centers (SOCs). But what’s the difference between MTTD vs MTTR, and why do they matter?
7 Ways to Jump-Start Your Incident Response
Recent research indicates that only 25% of organizations have incident response plans. Without such plans, companies are extremely susceptible to potential cyberattacks, and the stark business reality is that they take much longer to recover. Unfortunately, there are daily examples of major data breaches where a particular company’s incident response could have been managed more effectively.