TOPIC LIBRARY
Incident Response
Reference topics covering data breaches, ransomware, containment, recovery, and incident investigation concepts.
What Is a Data Breach?
A data breach is a security incident in which sensitive, protected, or confidential data is accessed or disclosed without authorization. Such breaches can have devastating effects, ranging from the loss of customer trust to financial penalties and regulatory consequences. They occur in various sectors, impacting businesses, governments, and individuals across.
Read Topic →What Is Business Email Compromise?
Business email compromise is a fraud and account-abuse pattern involving trusted email identities, payment manipulation, impersonation, or mailbox control.
Read Topic →What Is Data Exfiltration?
Data exfiltration is unauthorized data transfer out of an environment or account, often requiring careful correlation across endpoint, cloud, and network evidence.
Read Topic →What Is Initial Access?
Initial Access is the MITRE ATT&CK tactic describing how an adversary first gains entry into a network, account, cloud tenant, or system.
Read Topic →What Is Ransomware?
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts the victim ’ s files, making them inaccessible, and demands a ransom payment to decrypt them. This form of cyberattack can affect individuals, businesses, and even government agencies, leading to significant data loss, financial damage, and disruption of services.
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