Investigation tools

Antivirus, antispam, firewalls, and other protection technologies are still essential and effective and have a role to play despite the evolution of advanced cyberattacks. However, data breaches occur every day and these breaches demonstrate to us all that even with a stock of security products and appropriately controlled security best practices, you can never be sure that a data breach won't occur. It's often long after a cyber incident started occurring that it is discovered by experts, and it is only a matter of time before anyone might be breached.

As we have stated, prevention technologies do not ensure that a system is 100% hack-proof. Thus, incident investigation tools and technologies perform a vital function: when malicious emails have bypassed all prevention technologies, organizations are alerted and are able to act before a data breach occurs. These technologies have to operate at a forensic level in order to identify advanced breach...