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SANS Report - Maturing and Specializing: Incident Response Capabilities Needed

Hackers used to break into a system, steal as much data as possible and get out, without worrying about detection. Today, however, they have learned to be patient, harvest more data, and cause significant security and financial effects. Because of this, organizations must detect and respond to incidents as quickly, efficiently and accurately as possible.

The length of dwell time (the time from the attacker’s initial entry into an organization’s network to the time the intrusion is detected) correlates most closely to the total cost of a breach. The longer an attacker has unfettered access on a network, the more substantial the data loss, severity of customer data theft and subsequent regulatory penalties.

Learn more about the capabilities needed in your incident response program with this high-powered SANS report.