Assuming a State of Compromise: A Best Practise Approach for SMEs on Incident Response Management
| Title | Assuming a State of Compromise: A Best Practise Approach for SMEs on Incident Response Management |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2014 |
| Authors | Harsch, A., Idler, S., Thurner, S. |
| Conference Name | IT Security Incident Management IT Forensics (IMF), 2014 Eighth International Conference on |
| Date Published | May |
| Keywords | best practices, Companies, Computer crime, Cybercrime, economic feasibility, enterprise IT security experts, Forensics, Incident Response, incident response management, IT Security, Malware, remediation, small and medium sized enterprises, small-to-medium enterprises, SME |
| Abstract | Up-to-date studies and surveys regarding IT security show, that companies of every size and branch nowadays are faced with the growing risk of cyber crime. Many tools, standards and best practices are in place to support enterprise IT security experts in dealing with the upcoming risks, whereas meanwhile especially small and medium sized enterprises(SMEs) feel helpless struggling with the growing threats. This article describes an approach, how SMEs can attain high quality assurance whether they are a victim of cyber crime, what kind of damage resulted from a certain attack and in what way remediation can be done. The focus on all steps of the analysis lies in the economic feasibility and the typical environment of SMEs. |
| DOI | 10.1109/IMF.2014.13 |
| Citation Key | 6824083 |