F-Secure’s globally available incident readiness and response services help organizations contain and mitigate security incidents in days instead of weeks.
Helsinki, Finland : While it’s important to
In the last 12 months, F-Secure Consulting responded to dozens of major security incidents for organizations across the globe. Ransomware attacks accounted for about a third of all engagements. Other cases included acts of nation-state level espionage, different
F-Secure Consulting’s Incident Response team’s average response time to clients was 15.4 minutes. And on average, engagements lasted for approximately 12 days. However, some incident response cases can last several weeks or even months, increasing an attack’s impact and mitigation costs.
“It’s easy to see why a comprehensive incident response plan seems like a luxury when weighed against other preventative measures that offer immediate benefits.
Furthermore, the benefits of preparation are beginning to make a difference to more than just restoring operations.
A recent report from Forrester* highlighted the increasing interest in an organization’s security posture from different stakeholders: “Inadequate breach response can lead to financial, operational, and reputational losses. Therefore, following any data breach, the public, government agencies, partners, suppliers, and your cyberinsurance provider will subject your organization to scrutiny. They want to know what your security posture was before the breach and how well you responded after the breach.”
Such scrutiny from stakeholders – including authorities – signals increasing expectations for companies to prevent the consequences of an attack from spiraling out of control.
F-Secure Consulting’s incident response services consist of two separate yet complementary offerings to accommodate different needs:
· Incident readiness: services and retainers designed to reduce the impact of an incident by enabling quicker response times and shorter recovery times while improving response effectiveness and overall return on capability investments.
· Incident response: support for incidents ranging from post-incident forensic analysis of isolated hosts to incident management, containment, and eradication during a domain compromise.
And as a global, multidisciplinary incident response function that operates as part of a larger organization offering businesses a comprehensive portfolio of cyber security solutions, F-Secure Director of Detection and Response Matt Lawrence says that F-Secure’s depth of capabilities ensures organizations have access to world-class expertise to fit a wide range of problems.
“We have consultants operating from ten countries across four continents, meaning world-