Using agility to combat cyber attacks

Kerry A. Anderson
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Kerry A. Anderson: Cyber Security and Risk Management Professional, USA

Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, 2017, vol. 10, issue 4, 298-307

Abstract: Some incident response practitioners feel that they have been locked in a battle with cyber criminals since the popular adoption of the internet. Initially, organisations made great inroads in preventing and containing cyber attacks. In the last few years, however, cyber criminals have become adept at eluding defence security technologies and rapidly modifying their exploit strategies for financial or political gains. Similar to changes in military combat tactics, cyber criminals utilise distributed attack cells, real-time communications, and rapidly mutating exploits to minimise the potential for detection. Cyber criminals have changed their attack paradigm. This paper describes a new incident response paradigm aimed at combating the new model of cyber attacks with an emphasis on agility to increase the organisation’s ability to respond rapidly to these new challenges.

Keywords: agile; incident; cyber; BCP; DR; teams (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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