Calling a Spade a Spade… Incident Classification and Your Response Plan

During a cybersecurity incident response, decisions need to be made quickly and accurately. One way to speed up response is to tailor YOUR incident response strategies and tasks to different types of cybersecurity incidents. By creating an incident classification framework or matrix, you will be able to prioritize incident response efforts and develop meaningful metrics for future remediation.

Analecta Cyber’s Emerging Threats Roundup

Google Play Store removes adware-infected Android apps; 9M user downloads

Security researchers at Trend Micro announced on January 8 they had identified 85 Google Play Store apps that repeatedly displayed ads and maliciously hid while running in the background.

Log Aggregators: Deciding Between Off the Shelf or Rolling Your Own

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework calls on organizations to monitor their information systems to identify unauthorized use, unauthorized local, remote and network connections, and indicators of potential attacks. To do this, NIST suggests collecting and correlating event data from multiple sources and sensors.

Analecta Cyber’s Emerging Threats Roundup

UPDATE - Marriott: Hackers accessed only 383M records - not 500M;
5.25M unencrypted passport numbers included

In Marriott’s January 4, 2019 press release, the company updated their assessment of the number of guests whose passport numbers and payment card numbers were involved in the Starwood reservations database security incident announced on November 30, 2018.

New Year's Resolutions for Cybersecurity Best Practices

After the ball has dropped and all of the confetti has been cleaned up, there’s only one more thing to do - jump into 2019 with a renewed focus on cybersecurity by adopting the following New Year’s resolutions!