When Cybercriminals get busy, businesses must be increasingly resilient

Cisco Talos' Brad Garnett shares his thoughts on creating a resilient incident response program in a hybrid work world.

Another holiday season is behind us, and with it a period of peak shopping, peak travel, and yes, peak cybercrime.

The end-of-year holidays are open season for cybercriminals. Last month, a particularly worrisome computer bug known as Log4J became the latest in a series of high-profile exploits. 

How should organizations battle these challenges, particularly in the event of such an emergency when the bad guys may already have a foot in the door?

If you’ve teamed up with Cisco to help you prepare for and respond to cyber incidents, you call Cisco Talos Incident Response.

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Talos Takes Podcast Interview: Preparing for the worst with Cisco Talos Incident Response

Now that Cisco Incident Response has been a part of the Talos family for a few months now, we figured it was time to check back in with them. On this episode of Talos Takes, Brad Garnett from CTIR joins the show to talk about his organization's new Cyber Range offering, part of the standard CTIR retainer. Brad discusses how a Cyber Range exercise can prepare your organization for the worst and how it helps dispel some myths around what happens during a cyber intrusion.

Listen to Episode 12: Talos Takes Podcast

Full Episodes: https://talosintelligence.com/podcasts/shows/talos_takes

Cisco Talos Roundtable: Should governments pay extortion payments after a ransomware attack?

Recently, I participated in a roundtable discussion with Cisco Talos…

In May, the city of Baltimore suffered a massive ransomware attack that took many of its systems down for weeks — restricting employees’ access to email, closing online payment portals and even preventing parking enforcement officials from writing parking tickets. After the attack, the city’s mayor said several times the city would not be paying the extortion request, but it’s still expected to cost the city more than $10 million to recover.

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