Sooner or later, the unimaginable becomes the inevitable: your information security will get breached and your systems will get attacked. It might be a mild brief denial of service or a full-on concerted effort to wipe you off the Internet, but it will happen. There’s only one real question you need to answer: are you ready? Do you have the skills, techniques, tools, and organization to respond and recover? Fact is, most of us fail to plan for such a fateful day—leading to panic, indecision, and mistakes. Our jobs as defenders of information fall into three overarching categories of protection, detection, reaction. Mobilizing an organized team with a well-designed and tested reaction plan is the only effective way to recover from the attack and quickly return to business as usual. Steve Riley will show you how to build such a team and how to prepare it for success.
Steve Riley is a senior strategist and worldwide security evangelist in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. Steve specializes in the process of information security, including policies, networks, and hosts.