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November 2022

Three Tips for Creating Better Response and Recovery Plans

Response and recovery plans are crucial to reduce the severity and time of security incidents. But many organizations aren’t sure where to start in building their plans. Here are three tips for building a better recovery plan. Subscribe to our channel to get more useful content to help you protect your organization.

Keeping Your Recovery Plans Up to Date

It’s critical to have recovery plans like business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident response plans. However, where many organizations fall short is in keeping these plans evergreen. An incident can blindside an organization when they discover its response plan no longer reflects the environment they need to protect. So how can your organization keep its recovery plans accurate and up to date?

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Security Incident Response Plan - Sedara Whiteboard

Incident response is a structured process organizations use to identify and deal with cybersecurity incidents. Response includes several stages, including preparation for incidents, detection and analysis of a security incident, containment, eradication, and full recovery, and post-incident analysis and learning. What are some tips for making effective plans? Watch this episode of Sedara's Whiteboard Series to find out.

Identifying a Quality Pentest - Sedara Whiteboard Series

In this episode of the Sedara Cybersecurity Whiteboard Series, our Lead Pentester Nick Aures talks about what to look for in a quality pentest. Nick breaks the talk down into 4 key takeaways: Take a look, and we hope it’s helpful. What Should I Look for in a Quality Penetration Test? Penetration testing is a fundamental part of validating the security measures you’ve taken and showing they are effective.

Methods of Social Engineering

What are some of the methods phishers use to compromise organizations? In this video, Nick goes over the common methods phishers use to gain information: Phishing is most insidious when it uses a combination of techniques. It can even overcome sophisticated security measures like Multifactor Authentication (MFA) – for example, if an attacker manages to steal a password through email, then calls the user pretending to be a technician asking them to approve an authenticator popup on their phone.