Incident Response Consulting

Incident Response Consulting

When threatened by the latest major attack from the Internet, will your business continue to thrive? In an era when commercial espionage is part of the daily business climate, is your corporate computer network tough enough to survive? Are you certain that your system administrators will recognize when your network has been compromised? Do you know what to do first when your organization needs to respond to a breach in network security? Are your systems patched against the vulnerability that was announced this morning?

PRESECURE can help you answer these questions with a resounding "Yes!" Even though insurance solutions are becoming available to manage computer security risks, the ability to defend and respond to incidents remains essential. This is true both to avoid incidents in the first place and to gain insurance coverage at an economical rate.

Our philosophy about computer security and incident response

Dr. Klaus-P. Kossakowski "We believe in preparing for the worst before it happens. Being proactive is a key idea - in an organization, if you do suffer a network compromise, you will be ready and able to recover and resume your core business activities, even while your response team is hard at work fighting the problem. Traditional security is built on the assumption that 100 percent secure systems are possible. This is certainly not true given the interactive nature of the business world, and even if theoretically possible would be exorbitantly expensive. I encourage organizations to adapt a paradigm of survivability - if you plan, prepare, and are ready to respond, you can withstand attacks and easily survive security incidents."

In the area of incident response PRESECURE can help you

• Identify security events such as attacks or attempted intrusions
• Understand and execute appropriate responses
• Identify new and existing threats and vulnerabilities

Incident response can involve anything from switching from one server to another server, to tracking and tracing the source of an attack, to transferring an entire IT operation to a backup facility. Instead of relying on external service providers, more and more companies believe it is mandatory to manage incidents from the inside as part of their overall risk and security management strategy. Otherwise your organization will fail to understand emerging network threats and their potential to adversely affect your bottom line. Never was the old saying "A stitch in time saves nine" more apropos!

PRESECURE can improve your team's skills and abilities whether you are

• Developing a strategy for corporate-wide security and incident response activities
• Planning, building, or enhancing an incident response team
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• Training security teams to deal with attacks and incidents
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• Fortifying intrusion detection teams to deal with attacks and incidents
• Organizing incident report and data analysis efforts
• Consulting with other parties about topics in incident response
• Responsible for leading organizational risk and security management

PRESECURE helps you achieve this by

• Workshops, presentations, and round tables
• Training, tutorials, and IRT courses
• Consulting and project management
• Serving as a negotiator for managed security and incident response services
• Ongoing support, coaching, and monitoring
• Other customer-tailored services