From the course: Soft Skills for Information Security Professionals
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Analysis
From the course: Soft Skills for Information Security Professionals
Analysis
- Remember Drupalgeddon, Heartbleed, Shellshock? When a new security challenge comes our way, like addressing zero-day vulnerabilities or responding to a breach, our instinct is to just fix everything right away. Unfortunately, that knee-jerk behavior tends to result in bad decisions that could end up making things worse than they already are. Imagine responding to a ransomware incident by immediately restoring from backups, only to realize that the backups you used were also infected. That's one of the reasons that analysis is such an important soft skill for infosec pros. I once worked on a security incident where a healthcare practice was hit by ransomware. They brought me in to perform forensics. The goal was to prove to the office of civil rights that no healthcare data was stolen during the attack. The problem was that they waited four weeks to bring me in, four weeks. By the time I got there, a lot of the data I…
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