Threat Management
Common Types of Cyber Threats
- Password attack
- Drive-by attack
- Eavesdropping attack
- Phishing attack
- Data Breaches
- Malware distribution
- Remote access tools
- Ransomware
- Intrusion attempts
- DoS (Denial-of-service) attack and DDoS (Distributed denial-of-service) attack
Benefits of Threat Management
- Improving security by employing an integrated platform and security model that will bring cloud security, endpoint security, and network security into prevailing architecture along with complete control and visibility.
- Evolving to the proactive and go-ahead security model which is based on threat management that drives better responses to security incidents.Gaining visibility and control over all the stages of intrusion in a unified fashion, which will create a smooth workflow of threat analytics.
IT Compliance and Reporting
For any professional, compliance involves the practices, which provide and maintain a systematic proof of adherence to the internal policies as well as the external regulations, laws, or guidelines imposed on the organization.
IT Compliance requires proper control and protection of information such as how it is gained and kept, how the information is distributed both internally and externally, how it is protected and secured. The internal considerations of the organization include its, policies, goals, and organizational structure, while the external compliance includes the satisfaction of the end users while protecting both the customers and company from harm. Many specialized tools are implemented for continuously identifying, monitoring, reporting, and auditing to achieve and maintain compliance.
The compliance audit is generally performed by an audit committee to determine if an organization is complying with applicable regulations through the systematic reviews of operations, controls, policies, and procedures. The IT team makes the use of the compliance reports to reveal security breaches, policy violations, and underlying threats, which are required to be addressed before any severe damage can occur.
Perhaps, the topmost preference for any organization, which gathers, transmits, or uses the personal information of its customers for commercial purposes – is keeping up its customer data security
One of the key requirements for any organization which gathers, transmits, or uses the personal information of its customers for commercial purposes, is keeping up its customer data security.
The AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) has developed its SOC (Service Organization Control) certifications for helping organizations verify that their contractors are in compliance with the top-level of data and information security standards. The organizations which are ready to achieve and maintain SOC 2 compliance need to engage the best-qualified technical support providers for this service.
The Trust Services Criteria of SOC 2 access the internal commands on the five data and information security concerns, which are:
- Security
- Availability
- Confidentiality
- Processing Integrity
- Privacy
Incident Response
A set of guidelines to help Information Technology staff identify, bounce back, and recuperate from any network security mishaps – is an ‘Incident Response Plan’.
The incident response plan addresses issues such as data loss, service outages, and cybercrime, which threaten day to day operations.
Whenever a significant obstruction occurs in your organization, you require an instant, detailed, and thorough incident response plan to help your IT team manage and resolve the issue.
The Incident Response Team is a consortium of people, (generally the IT staff) and is responsible for collecting, preserving, and analyzing the incident-relevant data.
Steps of Incident Response Plan
A typical Incident Response Plan comprises over 5 steps, which are:
- Preparation
The organization will prepare a team to establish the guides, elements, and procedures, which are required for the handling of an incident when it happens.
- Identification
The organization will determine whether or not an incident has occurred. It will examine the context and events to confirm that.
- Containment
This step follows when an incident is confirmed to have taken place in the organization. The organization will establish a long term as well as interim ‘stoppage’. This step will prevent the incident from getting more terrible.
- Eradication
In eradication, the mess will be cleaned up. The organization will clear out the invader’s artifacts on its system thoroughly.
- Recovery
You will restore all the affected system in a very secure manner and also observe its etiquettes to stabilize.
An evidence-based comprehensive solution designed to protect the corporate network, hunt for threats, and respond to complex cyber attacks
The Lifecycle of Threat Intelligence
Planning and Direction
In this step, the organization prioritizes its objectives of intelligence based on the factors such as how much they comply with your company’s values, how big the resulting decision will have an impact, as well as how quick the decision is.
Collection
This step helps to direct how and where to conduct the data acquisition as well as the information gathering.
Processing
This step collates, validates, and evaluates the collected information and data to ensure its relevance and usefulness.
Analysis and Production
In this step, the data is analyzed over accuracy, completeness, and accuracy to satisfy the original requirements.
Dissemination and Feedback
The final and finished product is then made available to its intended customer in the right format, time, and medium.
Network Penetration Testing
Network Penetration Testing is used to recognize the vulnerabilities within your systems, networks, network devices (switches, routers, etc.) and hosts, long before any hackers or cybercriminals find and exploit them.
The Network Penetration Test helps an organization obtain valuable information about the security structure of its assets and makes it capable of fixing them before a hacker can cause serious harm.
A typical Network Penetration Test makes use of the globally acquired approaches, which are based on PTES i.e., Penetration Testing Execution Standard. They incorporate:
Intelligence Gathering - Finding out all the accessible systems as well as their particular services to gather all the possible information.
Threat Modeling - Pinpointing all the vulnerabilities in the systems through manual deep-dive testing techniques and automated scans.
Vulnerability Analysis - Recording and analyzing all the vulnerabilities for the development of the attacking plan.
Exploitation - Actually making an attempt to the exploitation.
Reporting - Distributing, categorizing, and prioritizing the finding for generating the actionable report for the stakeholders of the project.
Vulnerability Scanning inspects the potential exploitation points on a network or computer to pinpoint the security holes. The vulnerability scan indicates and classifies the weaknesses in networks, communication equipment, and computers, and also predicts the effectuality of countermeasures.
Vulnerability scanning makes use of different software that scan security flaws. It tests the systems and networks for the emergence of such flaws and generates a report which covers all the findings, which an enterprise can employ to strengthen its network and system security. A vulnerability scanner automates the security auditing and plays a significant role in securing your IT by scanning all your websites and networks for various security risks.
Best Vulnerability Scanners
Following is a list of top-notch vulnerability scanners. All have their own vulnerability scanning capabilities
- MBSA i.e., Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
- Retina CS Community
- Comodo HackerProof
- Nexpose Community
- OpenVAS
- Aircrack
- Tripwire IP360
- Nikto
- Nessus Professional
- Wireshark
Cyber Security Risk Assessment
The threat landscape of today is continuously evolving. Regardless of the type and size of a business, all organizations require considering information security as a serious issue of business management and should give equal emphasis on technology, process, and people.
As the technological needs of organizations are increasing, potential entry points and vulnerabilities into organizational systems are also elevating. In order to handle persistent risks and threats, organizations must enforce some advanced security.
The Cyber security Risk Assessment can help enterprises in:
- Stimulating scope of assets and systems supporting key-lines of processes or business.
- Identifying related assets, systems, compliance mandates and/or regulatory requirements.
- Identifying vulnerabilities, threats, impacts, and chances of harms and damages that can occur.
- Prioritizing the recovery plan – this is based on an organization’s specific targets, goals, timelines, and budgets.
- Benchmarking business practices.
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