INCIDENT RESPONSE Flashcards
Breach
The loss of control, compromise, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized acquisition, or any similar occurrence where: a person other than an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses personally identifiable information; or an authorized user accesses personally identifiable information for other than an authorized purpose.
Event
Any observable occurrence in a network or system.
Exploit
A particular attack. It is named this way because these attacks exploit system vulnerabilities.
Incident
An event that actually or potentially jeopardizes the confidentiality, integrity or availability of an information system or the information the system processes, stores or transmits.
Intrusion
A security event, or combination of events, that constitutes a deliberate security incident in which an intruder gains, or attempts to gain, access to a system or system resource without authorization.
Threat
Any circumstance or event with the potential to adversely impact organizational operations (including mission, functions, image or reputation), organizational assets, individuals, other organizations or the nation through an information system via unauthorized access, destruction, disclosure, modification of information and/or denial of service.
Vulnerability
Weakness in an information system, system security procedures, internal controls or implementation that could be exploited by a threat source.
Zero Day
A previously unknown system vulnerability with the potential of exploitation without risk of detection or prevention because it does not, in general, fit recognized patterns, signatures or methods.
Incident Response
The priority of any incident response is to protect life, health and safety. When any decision related to priorities is to be made, always choose safety first.
Incident management goal
The primary goal of incident management is to be prepared. Preparation requires having a policy and a response plan that will lead the organization through the crisis.
Incident Response
The incident response process is aimed at reducing the impact of an incident so the organization can resume the interrupted operations as soon as possible.
Incident Response goal
The priority of any incident response is to protect life, health and safety. When any decision related to priorities is to be made, always choose safety first.
Incident response plan
An incident response plan that will help preserve business viability and survival.
The incident response process is aimed at reducing the impact of an incident so the organization can resume the interrupted operations as soon as possible
IR Plan (1) Preparation
Preparation
-Develop a policy approved by management.
-Identify critical data and systems, single points of failure.
-Train staff on incident response.
-Implement an incident response team
-Practice Incident Identification. (First Response)
-Identify Roles and Responsibilities.
-Plan the coordination of communication between stakeholders.
-Consider the possibility that a primary method of communication may not be available.
IR Plan (2) Detection Analysis
Detection and Analysis
-Monitor all possible attack vectors.
-Analyze incidents using known data and threat intelligence.
-Prioritize incident response.
-Standardize incident documentation.
