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SEC Rule Will ‘Change Playbook’ on Cyber Incident Management
New requirements approved by the SEC this week will impact how publicly traded companies disclose cyber incidents, data risk management and oversight by the board of directors of security policies.
U.S. Government Details Federal Agency Incident Response Plans
The U.S. government has published new playbooks with the goal of standardizing and improving how federal agencies plan for vulnerability and incident response.
Framework Outlines How Companies Should Talk About Breaches
Organizations are increasingly developing incident response playbooks to plan out in advance what steps to take in case of a security breach—such as an employees accessing files without authorization, a lost computer, or a server compromised by outside attackers. A team of academics from the UK's University of Kent and University of Warwick outlined a comprehensive playbook on how organizations should communicate after a security incident.
Microsoft DART Finds Six Attack Groups On Customer Network
While helping a customer deal with a state-sponsored attack group which had been stealing data and email for about eight months, Microsoft’s incident response team uncovered five other threat actors operating simultaneously on the network.
Senators Propose Cybersecurity Coordinators for Every State
A bipartisan group of Senators are interested in establishing a cybersecurity leader for each state in order to increase the states' abilities to respond to cyberattacks.