Restoration Is the Most Critical Factor in Reducing Incident Costs
In the minutes and hours after a catastrophic cyberattack, incident responders engage in a series of actions in a standardized order, including engaging a breach counselor, selecting a forensics vendor, deploying forensics capture tools, answering “whodunnit and how,” and, finally, restoring systems to operational. Aside from the law enforcement objectives of digital forensics science, all these activities are, at their root, about one primary goal: getting the business operational again while staying in compliance. They are done as quickly and efficiently as possible to minimize the significant financial, legal, and brand impacts business interruption can have on the organization and the customers that rely on it.