I like speaking about incident response because there are so many important practical points to convey. Every so often I re-consolidate my thinking on the topic and do up a new slide deck. Here is one such deck from this week’s presentation at Canadian Society of Association Executives Winter Summit. It includes an adjusted four step description of the response process that I’m content with.
We’ve been having some team discussions over here about how incident response plans can be horribly over-built and unusable. I made the point in presenting this that one could take the four step model asset out in this deck, add add a modest amount of “meat” to the process (starting with assigning responsibilities) and append some points on how specific scenarios might be handled based on simple discussion if not a bona fide tabletop exercise.
Preparing for a cyber incident isn’t and shouldn’t be hard, and simple guidance is often most useful for dealing with complex problems.
