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Preventing & Preparing for Cyberattacks: Incident Response Plan (IRP), Cyber Insurance, & Identifying Partners
How to build your Incident Response Plan
1. Standards-based – SANS or NIST
Defined Incident Response Team
2. Assign tasks and responsibilities to specific roles.
3. Assign someone to log the incident
4. Contact information for key staff, third parties, and law enforcement
5. Define how you will communicate ahead of time. Conference bridges, out-of-band communications.
6. Quick action response steps. Ransomware, Malware infection, Third-party breach
7. Test the plan at least annually.
8. Make sure everyone on the Incident Response Team is familiar.
9. Revise as necessary to match the current environment.
Preventing & Preparing for Cyberattacks: Cyber Attacks, Infection Vectors, & Layers of Defense
Common Types of Attacks on Credit Unions
1. Malware
2. Phishing Attacks
3. DDoS
4. Ransomware
Most Common Attack Vectors
1. Social Engineering: Phishing Emails
2. Clicking on Bad Links
3. Exploiting Vulnerabilities
Layers of Defense against Cyberattacks
1. Patching Vulnerabilities
2. Advanced Endpoint protection
3. Endpoint Isolation
4. Automated Backups
5. SOC/Monitoring: Early and Rapid Identification
6. Security Awareness Training
What Disasters Should Your Credit Union Prepare for in Its Credit Union Disaster Recovery Plan?
Your credit union needs to be prepared for a wide variety of disasters. If you’re looking for an idea about what those disasters might be, read on!
Read More6 Disaster Recovery Tips for Credit Unions
Are you looking for credit union disaster recovery tips that tell you what to test and when? We’ve got you covered. Read on to learn more.
Read More5 Considerations for Building Credit Union Disaster Recovery Plans
Building credit union disaster recovery plans isn’t the easiest thing in the world. There are numerous difficult logistical problems to address, and they’re all important. We’ll try to distill some…
Read MoreDisaster Recovery Planning: How Should I Backup my Servers?
Ongoing Operations approaches disaster recovery in two main ways with regard to backup servers. The traditional way (as we call it) would be through our Rep V3 product, which is…
Read MoreBefore, During & After A Hurricane – Ensuring Your Credit Union Is Prepared!
Tis the season… Hurricane season that is. Have you reviewed your Credit Union’s hurricane disaster recovery plan? Credit Union hurricane planning is important! Even though the hurricane season spans from…
Read MoreHow Will A VM Host-based Recovery Improve My Credit Union RTO/RPOs?
Credit Unions all share a common disaster recovery goal….improving Credit Union recovery time objectives (RTO) and Credit Union recovery point objectives (RPO) for their systems and applications to ensure business…
Read MoreHow Does Ongoing Operations Perform A Credit Union Disaster Recovery Test?
Ongoing Operations has participated in hundreds Disaster Recovery Tests (and real events!) with clients. Although everyone calls the effort a DR “test”, the approach we take with these is to look at…
Read MoreWhen Is Cash King – "Crisis Cash"
In today’s world, the need to carry cash is not a necessity. Plastic cards have taken over how we purchase everyday items that we want or need. To be honest…
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