Enterprise Cybersecurity Study Guide: How to Build a Successful Cyberdefense Program Against Advanced Threats

© Scott E. Donaldson, Stanley G. Siegel, Chris K. Williams, Abdul Aslam 2018

Scott E. Donaldson, Stanley G. Siegel, Chris K. Williams and Abdul AslamEnterprise Cybersecurity Study Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3258-3_10

10. Managing a Cybersecurity Crisis

Scott E. Donaldson¹ , Stanley G. Siegel², Chris K. Williams³ and Abdul Aslam³

(1)

Falls Church, Virginia, USA

(2)

Potomac, Maryland, USA

(3)

San Diego, California, USA

 

Overview

• When does a cybersecurity incident become a crisis?

  • When it impacts entire enterprise

  • When it requires activation of disaster recovery plans

• For example, it becomes a crisis when a single compromised server becomes ten compromised servers, then a hundred, and pretty soon the entire data center is infected, damaged, or ...