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Blog Palo Alto Networks Must-Read Articles 7 Tips to Improve Your Ex... 7 Tips to Improve Your Existing Incident Response Plan Link copied By Ashlie Blanca Sep 08, 2022 8 minutes ... views Must-Read Articles Points of View Unit 42 CSIRT Incident Response incident response report NIST Unit 42 IR Plan Best Practices for 2022 The last few years have thrown everything (and several kitchen sinks) at IT and security teams. Massive cloud adoption, increasingly advanced attacks, a shift to work from home, and other contributing factors mean that your incident response (IR) plan from just a few years ago won't cut it in 2022. No organization wants to be reactionary when a security incident occurs. A proactive approach with a solid IR plan helps you respond rapidly and effectively, with the ability to help your organization resume normal operations as quickly as possible. Many enterprises already have an IR plan, but no matter how thorough it is, the evolving cyber threat landscape not to mention other shifting circumstances in your organization necessitates periodic changes and improvements. For example, our latest 2022 Unit 42 Incident Response Report found that business email compromise and ransomware attacks are rampant, collectively making up 70% of cases handled by the Unit 42 team. While threat actors have flocked to these types of money-making schemes for years, the specifics evolve. Ransomware groups, for example, are more often engaging in additional layers of extortion to pressure organizations to pay. And, theyre creating easily accessible versions of their malware to make it possible for threat actors with fewer technical skills to participate in their malicious activities. By revising existing IR plans, you make it possible for your organization to stay ahead as threat actors shift their tactics. Moreover, the top three access vectors for threat actors are phishing, software vulnerability exploitation and brute-force credential attacks, so its vital that...

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