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Networking All-in-One For Dummies, 9th Edition
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Networking All-in-One For Dummies, 9th Edition

by Doug Lowe
December 2024
Beginner
960 pages
22h 32m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
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Chapter 5

Planning for Cybersecurity Incident Response

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Creating an official cybersecurity incident response plan

Bullet Knowing when you’ve been attacked

Bullet Recovering from a cybersecurity attack

Bullet Communicating in the midst of a crisis

In July 2017, credit reporting giant Equifax discovered that hackers had penetrated its database systems and stolen the personal information, including Social Security numbers, of more than 150 million of its customers. The hackers had unfettered access to Equifax’s systems for 76 days before Equifax discovered the intrusion. Equifax waited until September of that year before notifying its customers that their personal data had been exposed. The incident significantly damaged Equifax’s reputation and resulted in a settlement of more than half a billion dollars.

Equifax did not handle the incident well.

In contrast, in that same year, shipping giant Maersk fell victim to a ransomware attack that crippled its entire shipping operation. Maersk’s IT experts soon discovered that the ransomware was spreading throughout its entire massive infrastructure, ...

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