Effective incident response starts before an incident occurs. Learn how to prepare your small business for cybersecurity incidents and minimize their impact.
Before it started raining. Evidence shows that organizations prepared to respond when incidents occur respond faster, with fewer financial losses, and with less damage to their brand integrity and reputation.
Many think competent IT teams will save them when incidents occur. While your IT team is critical, modern incidents are too complex for one person or team to handle alone.
From regulatory requirements to customer communication, financial considerations, and employee management—effective incident response requires diverse skills and coordinated action.
Effective incident response is a process spanning the entire incident lifecycle—from preparation through post-incident learning.
Our guide breaks this down into manageable phases that small businesses can implement and maintain.
Identify risks, threats, and vulnerabilities. Build your response team.
Develop processes to detect incidents and separate real threats from false alarms.
Stop the bleeding. Implement procedures to contain the incident immediately.
Find the root cause and eradicate the threat from your systems.
Restore operations safely after confirming the incident is resolved.
Conduct post-incident analysis to improve future response capabilities.
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