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The challenges of incident response plans and procedures

DATE: 21 Jan 2009


Most people who respond to computer breaches are engineers, and according to Mandiant's Kevin Mandia, they bow down to one god: accuracy.

Once an organization loses sensitive or personally identifiable information, the clock starts, and a company has a limited time to disclose the breach. So what's more important: time or accuracy? Kevin Mandia explores the argument and reveals five of his top incident response challenges.

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