How Cyber Security Can Protect Your Business - A guide for all stakeholders

CHAPTER 5: RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK

“If you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail.”

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Introduction and overview

Even the best controlled organisations are attacked. All organisations must be ready for such an eventuality by planning accordingly and developing processes to detect and respond to an attack.

Preparing for cyber attacks

A key part of preparation is to:

1.Assess which electronic information is vital for the operation of the organisation (sales and staff contact details, key customer details), and ascertain where and how this is stored and can be recovered. Ensure that backup copies of these files are maintained securely and are retrievable (some ransomware attacks seek to destroy backup data before the threat is revealed). ...