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Hands-on Incident Response and Digital Forensics
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Hands-on Incident Response and Digital Forensics

by Mike Sheward
July 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
232 pages
7h 59m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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2 BEFORE THE INCIDENT

There is an old phrase that many who’ve worked in the information security world will be very familiar with: ‘No one is interested in security, until everyone is interested in security.’ What this phrase is getting at is that people tend to pay more attention to security after a security incident has occurred. Unfortunately, there is more than a sliver of truth to this. I’ve known many folks, myself included, whose jobs were created thanks to additional funding made available following a security incident. I’ve even heard some security folks wish an incident upon their employer to advance their own security agenda, as extreme as that would be. As good, ethical security professionals, we will not adopt this mindset. Instead, ...

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ISBN: 9781780174204