Chapter 8: Implementing Incident Response and Forensics Procedures
When considering all the threats that can impact an organization, it is important to ensure there are policies and procedures in place to deal with unplanned security-related events. To ensure timely responses to security incidents, we should implement detailed planning to provide controls and mitigation. It is important, given the nature of sophisticated, well-funded adversaries, that we use a holistic approach when deploying appropriate threat detection capabilities. Some approaches may involve automation, which can lead to occasional mistakes (false positives and false negatives), so it is important that we also ensure we include humans in the loop. The ever-increasing complexity of attacks and a large security footprint add to these challenges. There is also evidence that Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors are likely to target vulnerable organizations. Countering APTs may require that we use advanced forensics...
