Featured posts from our MOXFIVE Technical Advisors with thoughts and stories to help minimize the business impact of cyber attacks.
Airiam Podcast: Flight Plan for Ransomware RecoveryJim 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 RecoveringIn Part Two of our blog with CrowdStrike, we share proven strategies and techniques for effective large-scale remediation efforts.
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 ClientsWhen 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 ProviderPicking 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 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 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 SegmentationHost-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 ForensicsLogs 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 ChaosOur 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 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.
Minimizing the Impact: How Cloud-Based Services Could Reduce the Stress of Recovery Using cloud-based services can help not only lift the burden of day-to-day IT and security tasks, but they can also provide a significant benefit when dealing with a ransomware attack.
Incident Management Chronicles: Striking The Right Balance Finding the right balance between containment, recovery and forensics workstreams is the key to faster and more effective incident response.
Incident Management Chronicles: Recovery vs Forensics The lines between forensics and recovery can easily blur during incident response. Using an approach that delivers both in parallel helps minimize business interruption and get organizations back online more quickly.
Incident Management as a Platform: Scaling Incident ResponseLearn how MOXFIVE's platform-based approach to incident management drives increased efficacy and quicker resolution of complex challenges while also reducing costs and making life easier for all parties involved.
Dispatch from the Front LineIn July 2019 we posted our inaugural blog and introduced our idea of how a Technical Advisor could help companies better manage the incident response process. Two years (and hundreds of incidents) later, we've learned many lessons that help our clients recover quickly and effectively.
Common Misconceptions of Business RecoveryRecovering from a cyber incident is a complicated and challenging process. Read our top 6 factors that can help determine whether the recovery process runs smoothly... or not.
In Times of Crisis: Focus, Plan, Ask for HelpEvery pilot learns the mantra "Aviate. Navigate. Communicate." during their initial flight training. Easy to remember in a crisis and it helps remind the pilot of the order of priorities required to execute an optimal recovery.
The Key to Successful Business RecoveryMOXFIVE’s “Break Glass” Strategy to Recovering from a Ransomware Attack Ransomware events can be the worst experience for any person
Think Before you “Brick”Over the last year, insurance carriers have looked for innovative ways to expand coverage. One such area is coverage around “bricking”. A...
Incident Response: Endpoint Agent All the Things?Understanding the role of Endpoint Technology in Incident Response
MOXFIVE, CrowdStrike, and Baker Tilly outline three use cases where our intelligence-led process helped clients recover with speed and precision.
MOXFIVE provides the clarity and peace of mind needed for attack victims during the incident response process. Our platform approach enables victims of attacks to work with a Technical Advisor who provides the expertise and guidance needed in a time of crisis, and facilitates the delivery of all technical needs required, consistently and efficiently.
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With experience on the front lines responding to incidents daily, MOXFIVE Technical Advisors have the unique ability to connect the dots between business, information technology, and security objectives to help you quickly identify the gaps and build a more resilient environment.
