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Featured posts from our MOXFIVE Technical Advisors with thoughts and stories to help minimize the business impact of cyber attacks.

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Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Proper Security Controls

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Proper Security Controls

Having proper security controls in place are critical to preventing both the frequency and severity of cyber incidents.

Unmasking the Mystery of Cybersecurity Training: Turning Yawns into Yields

Unmasking the Mystery of Cybersecurity Training: Turning Yawns into Yields

Cybersecurity training is often treated as a task done simply to check a box on a security checklist, but in reality, it's a critical element of a mature cybersecurity program.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Counsel + Litigation

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Counsel + Litigation

In this 7th post in our Understanding Costs of Incident Response series, we will explore the nuances of counsel and litigation costs in incident response and why they should be an integral part of an organization's cybersecurity planning.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Business Interruption

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Business Interruption

Calculating business interruption costs after a cyber-attack can be complex and make insurance claims more complicated.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Data Mining + Notification

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Data Mining + Notification

Understanding what data has been affected and determining a notification plan is a critical aspect of incident response that comes with substantial costs and complexities.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Recovery Costs

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Recovery Costs

Recovery is the “meat & potatoes” of the incident response process. In the 4th blog of our series, Understanding the Costs of Incident Response, we look at the three primary paths organizations can take to get back to business as usual, each with its own unique set of challenges.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Ransom Payments

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Ransom Payments

To Pay or not to Pay? In this post, we look at things to consider when deciding whether or not to pay a ransom and why it may not be the "easy button" many think it is.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Investigation Costs

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Investigation Costs

In the second post of this series, we look at investigation costs. These are the first costs incurred and the investigation lays the foundation for the rest of the IR process.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response

In this series, we look at the various costs that may be incurred during a typical ransomware incident and discuss key security controls that can help organizations minimize the impact of a cyber-attack.

Navigating the Cyber Insurance Market

Navigating the Cyber Insurance Market

As cyber threats evolve, understanding the changing cyber insurance market is essential for organizations to ensure adequate coverage. This article for InsuranceNewsNet.com looks at key points to keep in mind when considering a cyber policy.

Airiam Podcast: Flight Plan for Ransomware Recovery

Airiam Podcast: Flight Plan for Ransomware Recovery

Jim Aldridge joins our partners at Airiam on their podcast to discuss parallels he sees between flying a plane and successfully preparing for and responding to cybersecurity incidents.

Enterprise Remediation Part 2: Strategies for Containing and Recovering

Enterprise Remediation Part 2: Strategies for Containing and Recovering

In Part Two of our blog with CrowdStrike, we share proven strategies and techniques for effective large-scale remediation efforts.

Enterprise Remediation Part 1: Five Tips for Preparing and Planning

Enterprise Remediation Part 1: Five Tips for Preparing and Planning

When an incident progresses to the point where enterprise remediation is required, the scope and scale of the response can be daunting. In this two-part series with CrowdStrike, we lay out a roadmap from planning to recovery.

The Future is Now, AI-Assisted Cybersecurity

The Future is Now, AI-Assisted Cybersecurity

Can new AI models such as ChatGPT be used to help cybersecurity teams? Yes! Here are three quick use cases.

8 Mitigation Options to Help Reduce the Impact of a Ransomware Incident

8 Mitigation Options to Help Reduce the Impact of a Ransomware Incident

In this blog, we look at 8 examples of best practices that can be implemented to provide for a more resilient architecture.

Introducing the MOXFIVE Insights Report!

Introducing the MOXFIVE Insights Report!

Our inaugural edition provides context around themes that impacted cybersecurity risk during the first half of 2022. Derived from providing forensics, recovery and resilience services through our platform, our goal is to provide a deeper understanding of the current cyber threat landscape and help organizations make better, more informed decisions.

Ransomware Recovery Tales: A Tale of Two Clients

Ransomware Recovery Tales: A Tale of Two Clients

When responding to a ransomware incident, making the right decisions is critical and can make the difference between an easier path or a harder one. In this blog, we tell the tales of two clients and lessons learned so you can avoid the hard path.

Ransomware and the Importance of Selecting the Right Digital Forensics Provider

Ransomware and the Importance of Selecting the Right Digital Forensics Provider

Picking a forensics provider is one of the first critical decisions you have to make when faced with a cyber incident. In this blog, we cover the capabilities to consider when evaluating a potential provider.

Playing Chess with the Adversary: Value in Security Controls

Playing Chess with the Adversary: Value in Security Controls

Security, like chess, relies on having a variety of strategies and tactics to use for countering your opponent. This blog offers a variety of options to consider when devising your own plans to outwit your adversaries.

Investigating Business Email Compromises

Investigating Business Email Compromises

Business Email Compromises (BECs) continue to be the one of the top attack vectors, costing organizations over $2.3 billion in 2021. In this blog, we share priorities and key methodologies for investigating these attacks.

Minimizing the Impact: Network Segmentation

Minimizing the Impact: Network Segmentation

Host-based microsegmentation offers a wide range of advantages over legacy counterparts allowing organizations to apply segmentation at much deeper granularity including host, user, or application levels.

Logging to Enable Forensics

Logging to Enable Forensics

Logs are critical sources for forensics investigations. This blog looks at various log sources and the key takeaways to consider when building the retention strategy that's best for your organization.

Incident Managers: Bringing Order to Chaos

Incident Managers: Bringing Order to Chaos

Our MOXFIVE Incident Managers are critical to every project we manage at MOXFIVE. Learn more about their role and how they enable everyone in the process to focus on what they do best.

Minimizing the Impact: Securing Active Directory

Minimizing the Impact: Securing Active Directory

Gaining access to Active Directory is often a goal of threat actors during an intrusion. In this blog, we look at two key workstreams that add security layers making it more difficult for threat actors to achieve this goal.

The Continued Risk of Log4j

The Continued Risk of Log4j

The worst of the Log4j fire drill might be behind us (for now), but the opportunity for new exploits still remains. Learn how a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and other best practices can help reduce future impacts and improve your overall security posture.

Improving Cybersecurity Resilience: Starting the Journey, Part 2

Improving Cybersecurity Resilience: Starting the Journey, Part 2

In Part 2 of our Improving Cybersecurity Resilience blogs, we cover five additional capabilities that round out the list of security basics that we believe all organizations should implement.

Minimizing the Impact: Multifactor Authentication

Minimizing the Impact: Multifactor Authentication

Credentials being stolen, reused, or even guessed often leads to an intrusion, or turns what could have been a small incident into an enterprise-wide issue. Multifactor Authentication (MFA) is a critical layer of protection to help minimize this risk.

Improving Cybersecurity Resilience: Starting the Journey, Part 1

Improving Cybersecurity Resilience: Starting the Journey, Part 1

MOXFIVE recommends these six capabilities as a starting point for improving resilience due to their outsize contribution to reducing risk and mitigating damage.

Regulations + Insurance: Shifting the Tide

Regulations + Insurance: Shifting the Tide

Regulations abound and new ones are added all the time, but breaches still happen. Why? Because compliance frameworks are flawed and do not get into the technical weeds on effective implementation. There is an opportunity for the insurance industry to help drive things forward, especially for SMBs.

Minimizing the Impact: Local Administrator Password Solution

Minimizing the Impact: Local Administrator Password Solution

Enabling Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) can help greatly reduce the blast radius of a cyber-attack and is a quick and simple process for most environments.

MOXFIVE, CrowdStrike, and Baker Tilly outline three use cases where our intelligence-led process helped clients recover with speed and precision.

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