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What Every Engineer Should Know About Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, 2nd Edition
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What Every Engineer Should Know About Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, 2nd Edition

by Joanna F. DeFranco, Bob Maley
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
198 pages
6h 27m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from What Every Engineer Should Know About Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, 2nd Edition

4 Preparing for an Incident1

DOI: 10.1201/9781003245223-4

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

4.1 Introduction

It has been said, “If you don’t prepare the garden in the spring it won’t be ready to harvest in July.” Preparing does not just include turning the ground over and planting the seeds; it also includes putting up a fence and using deterrents for those pesky deer and rabbits trying to eat everything. If we apply that sentiment to security incidents, the information security professional obviously needs much more than a firewall to deter those pesky hackers from our critical data and systems as was outlined in the previous chapter. In addition, the digital forensics professional also needs ...

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