Incident response is an organized, strategic approach to detecting and managing cyber attacks in ways that limit damage, recovery time and costs. This guide shows how to establish an incident response strategy. It then outlines steps needed to craft a plan and put in place the team and tools required to minimize the fallout when a cyber attack hits your organization.

Know thine enemy -- and the common security threats that can bring an unprepared organization to its knees. Learn what these threats are and how to prevent them.

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• Karen Kent, Trusted Cyber Annex

Cybersecurity teams must be mindful at all times of the current threats their organization faces. While it's impossible to thwart every threat, stopping as many as possible and quickly detecting when they occur are both critical for reducing damage.

It is important to note that many cybersecurity incidents involve multiple types of threats. In a nutshell, a security threat is a malicious act that aims to corrupt or steal data or disrupt an organization's systems or the entire organization. A security event refers to an occurrence during which company data or its network might have been exposed. An event that results in a data or network breach is called a ...