Collaboration between various state cyber agencies results in comprehensive technical guidance for incident response
- Details
- Published: Friday, 04 September 2020 08:06
A joint advisory has been issued which presents the result of a collaborative research effort by the cyber security authorities of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. It highlights technical approaches to uncovering malicious activity and includes mitigation steps according to best practices.
Key points:
When addressing potential incidents and applying best practice incident response procedures:
First, collect and remove for further analysis:
- Relevant artifacts,
- Logs, and
- Data.
Next, implement mitigation steps that avoid tipping off the adversary that their presence in the network has been discovered.
Finally, consider soliciting incident response support from a third-party IT security organization to:
- Provide subject matter expertise and technical support to the incident response,
- Ensure that the actor is eradicated from the network, and
- Avoid residual issues that could result in follow-up compromises once the incident is closed.
Read ‘Technical Approaches to Uncovering and Remediating Malicious Activity’ (PDF).
