Facing up to complexity

How to deal with complex cyber-incidents caused by modern sophisticated threats

Published July 2021

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It may not always be possible to halt a threat before it penetrates the security perimeter, but it’s absolutely within our power to prevent the attack from spreading and to limit or exclude the resultant potential damage. And, when it comes to complex or targeted attacks, speed of incident resolution is critical.

However, complex incidents present very specific challenges, because they typically involve many aspects of the organization’s infrastructure that’s under attack. In a sense, this presents the dilemma – how do we know where to start, when seemingly everything matters most?

In this paper, Kaspersky looks at the five key barriers to successful complex incident resolution.