Organizations will be evaluated against performance requirements related to risk.
Cybersecurity is being recognized as more than an IT issue as CEOs tie risk management to business value. Incident response tools serve this aim by aligning the activity, information and people involved in each leg of the response. With the entire response memorialized in one place, management conducts reporting and process improvement with greater insight.

Cybersecurity is becoming the determinant factor in third-party transactions and engagements.

Existing collaboration tools are not fit for secure collaboration between internal and external stakeholders. However, there are a few incident response solutions that can provide secure access to system data and documents, enabling organizations to pursue transactions and engagements with third parties. The main benefit of using a third-party-friendly solution is the speed in which you are able to share information and address the cyber incident instead of having barriers block communication or access to documents.

Automation is the future of cybersecurity and incident response management.
In any threat situation, organizations face common challenges including locating incident response plans, communicating roles and tasks to response teams, and monitoring actions during and after the threat. Often information and actions are siloed between departments, which can slow down response times and hamper recovery. And in the case of ransomware, plans may be inaccessible and communication systems knocked offline prohibiting an effective response. Organizations can rely on solutions that can automate an incident response protocol to help eliminate barriers such as the ones mentioned above.

About the Author: Neil Ellis is the CIO and CISO at CafeX Communications, which has developed Challo, a process optimization platform with an emerging presence in designing, automating, and accelerating organizations’ Incident Response.

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