Incident Preparation: Data Retention

Many factors go into developing a good data retention policy, including client, partner and regulatory requirements, operational needs, and your own service delivery model, but don’t forget to factor in the risks of retaining too much data, retaining required data for longer than necessary, or the need to minimize data and how your risks can be exponentially increased if these decisions are not carefully made.

Managed Security Monitoring for the SMB

The Need for Managed Security Monitoring in the SMB Space We received a call to work a malware incident at a small healthcare firm in the Pacific Northwest.  We contacted their IT Admin, got a remote session going and started collecting initial information to do some quick triage and find out what we were dealing with. Our Security Engineer quickly identified the malware as Synack Ransomware, and it had compromised […]