How to Provide Remote Incident Response During the Coronavirus Times

While the Coronavirus pandemic continues to strike chaos across the global economies, threat actors keep on launching cyberattacks on organizations from all sizes and verticals.

IR providers face a unique challenge when approached by these organizations since, due to the Coronavirus mass quarantine, conducting incident response engagements by arriving physically to the customers’ offices is impossible.

Cynet 360, a tool of choice for a number of IR providers (offered to IR providers for free), enables responders to compensate on the lack of physical access with the ability to conduct a full IR operation remotely (learn more here) by seamless and rapid remote deployment, complete visibility into the attacked organization’s environment, automated threat detection, and integrated MDR services.

Attackers always seek easy opportunities, and it’s no wonder many threat actors take advantage of the current mayhem of the Coronavirus pandemic to increase their attacks’ volume. As the need for 3rd party increases, IR providers need to consider how to best handle the new situation in which physical access to the customer’s premises is inaccessible.

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