4.5.1 Incidence Response Team
In order to have an effective incident response plan in place, an incident response team is generally established. An incident response team is ‘assembled by representations from different departments, which together help to oversee the handling of an incident and manage in the best possible way’ [16]. One of the certainties in the field of Information Security is the occurrence of a security incident. Though the severity of the security incident may vary widely but if an organization is well prepared with a well formulated procedure to respond along with an effective incidence response team. An incidence response team is meant to have ‘familiarity with the systems and need to be readily available for better coordination and response’ [17]. A relationship with other external security agencies can further help in early recognition of new potential threats and strategies to overcome them.
It is very import for an Incident Response Team to have support from the senior management and sufficient authorities to carry out their work to protect the organization.
An Incidence Response Team can be compared to a fire department. It deals with the security breaches in the same way as the fire departments puts off a fire. As the fire department also provides ‘supplementary services like fire safety education and drills, similarly, an incident response team can also organize training for safety awareness and help with safe program developments’ [18]. This would ultimately help the organization to reduce their response time and make their response more efficient.
A plausible Incidence Response Team comprises of members with diverse set of technical and inter-personal skills. It is an essential trait for the member t...
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4.6.1 Understanding the organized method of DigiNotar attack
The same hacker, who had also attacked Comodo, another company that deals in Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates, claimed the responsibility for the attack on DigiNotar. ‘The hacker calls himself “Comodohacker” and is suspected to be a part of Turkish origin and working in an organized group. Though as per the interviews given by him, he is a 21-year old student from Iran, who breached DigiNotar in order to “punish” the Dutch governments over the actions in Bosnian War, Srebrenica in 1995. As a result of issuing of fraudulent certificates, more than 300,000 IP addresses have been compromised, which might have resulted in interception of users’ online communications. Most of the compromised IP addresses were from
The roles of emergency services consist on the medical team who is responsible for scene assessment of personnel and equipment requirements, coordinating information to and from hospitals, oversee treatment from medical and nursing personnel, the ambulance crew will do the triage, patient transfer from the scene, and health service communication. The fire services are responsible for eliminating the fire and rescue trapped casualties using specialist equipment, the police team will control the traffic to aid evacuation, identify and move the dead, maintain law and
It’s important to understand that in a crisis-response organization, especially in a large-scale operational response like a natural disaster, or an industrial accident, managers will likely take on different or expanded roles. This is especially true when one is involved in a crisis response involving multiple agencies or companies. People often find themselves leading or working for those they do not often come in contact with – or, sometimes, people they’ve never met.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling is a book that focuses on the events that occurred on and led up to the AT&T long-distance telephone switching system crashing on January 15, 1990. Not only was this event rare and unheard of it took place in a time when few people knew what was exactly going on and how to fix the problem. There were a lot of controversies about the events that led up to this event and the events that followed because not only did it happen on Martin Luther King Day, but few knew what the situation truly entailed. There was fear, skepticism, disbelief and worry surrounding the people that were involved and all of the issues that it incorporated. After these events took place the police began to crackdown on the law enforcement on hackers and other computer based law breakers. The story of the Hacker Crackdown is technological, sub cultural, criminal, and legal. There were many raids that took place and it became a symbolic debate between fighting serious computer crime and protecting the civil liberties of those involved.
Real-world events is probably the more significant of the group; using a risk management program allows decision makers access to critical information related to potential outcomes of an event/incident. The decision makers use the information to exam the most appropriate and lower risk approach to an event/incident. The NIPP risk management program used the risk management for three specific threats, physical, cyber, and human to protect CIKRs (U.S. DHS 2009, p.33). When risk management is implemented correctly and all areas assessed thoroughly, it can produce the best course of action to protect homeland security infrastructure over a larger area through the cooperation of and between the different NIPP established sectors. Exercise planning and risk management work well together exercises also provide feedback for risk management for real-word events. Exercising the possibilities of an incident/event provide a realistic basis for establishing certain understanding of an incident without the high risk associated with a real-world
Containment is the most important role to be played in an incident respond. These are the practice of the strategies which gets followed when there is an attack like Distributed Denial of Service Attacks ("Uf it security," 2011). In our Lockheed Martin company, we prepare ourselves for any circumstances so our employees can act upon the situation. Instead of wasting time in what needs to be done now we prepare ourselves for future attacks. The way containment process needs to be followed is to first determine which part of the system contains malware viruses and detecting this issue would be the first task in incident response strategy. The time when that one system is detected then our company will be isolating that specific system to limit
Over the past several years, there has been a rise in critical incidents on our college and university campuses, which has forced administrators to reevaluate the need to have effective campus safety. The National Incident Management System (NIMS) was developed by the Department of Homeland Security in March 2004 to “provide a systematic, proactive approach for all government agencies at all levels, nongovernment organizations, and private sector to work seamlessly to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents- regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity- to reduce the loss of life, destruction of property, and harm to the environment” (Fazzini, 2009, p. 14). NIMS provides colleges and universities the aptitudes and ability to respond to critical incidents and offers campuses a considerable approach to protecting students.
Importance of working as team in Health Care Organizations are numerous. When experts work together, the best and
The National Incident Management System, NIMS was introduced in March 2004, and is the country’s comprehensive approach to incident management. It outlines how first responders from different disciplines and jurisdictions can work together. The NIMS improves the coordination and cooperation between the public and private entities in different domestic incident management activities. It also creates a framework for compatibility and interoperability through balancing standardization and flexibility. As such, NIMS comes up with a flexible framework for the federal government to work together with private entities to manage domestic incident management activities.
Collaboration among security officers will probably require them to focus on an agreed-upon definition of security incident. The group probably wants to prioritize their limited time dealing with significant threats to the system, not just review reports that have little or no security significance. It is almost inevitable that as a result of human error, a technical failure or a novel attack, that some security incident or privacy breach will occur. It is extremely important that the RHIO has agreed upon procedures for incident response, reporting, and remediation.
Between April and May 2011, Sony Computer Entertainment’s online gaming service, PlayStation Network, and its streaming media service, Qriocity -plus Sony Online Entertainment, the company’s in-house game developer and publisher -were hacked by LulzSec, a splinter group of Anonymous, the hacker collective. The online services were shut down between April 20 and May 15 as Sony attempted to secure the breach, which put the sensitive personal data for over 100 million customers at risk. The PlayStation Network suffered multiple kinds of attacks. One was a classic data breach -the release of otherwise secure information. The second was a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, that left the network inaccessible to gamers.
...nd incident response are the broad spectrum of activities organizations engage in to provide effective operations, coordination and support. Incident management includes directing acquiring, coordinating and delivering resources to incident sites and sharing information with the public.
Denial of Service attacks (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS), have been around for many years, but only in the past few years have the frequency and magnitude of these attacks increased. They are a significant problem because they can shut an organization off from the Internet for extended periods of time and little can be done to stop them. DoS attacks occur when computer resources become unavailable to legitimate users after being exhausted by false requests for information (Houle and Weaver 1).
In order to achieve the goal of competent healthcare, all members of the team need to work well together. Time can be a barrier to teamwork in healthcare. Patient ratios to healthcare workers can be overwhelming, resulting in time constraints by all members. Another barrier is effective communication between providers and between the patient and family. Providers can neglect to pass on pertinent information to one another resulting in incompetent care being provided.
Whitman, M., & Mattord, H. (2010). Management of information security. (3rd ed., p. 6). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
2. Detection of Incidents: It cannot succeed in responding to incidents if an organization cannot detect incidents effectively. Therefore, one of the most important aspects of incident response is the detection of incidents phase. It is also one of the most fragmented phases, in which incident response expertise has the least control. Suspected incidents may be detected in innumerable ways.