Journal article
Cybersecurity Incident Response in Organizations: An Exploratory Case Study and Process Model of Situation Awareness
Atif Ahmad, Sean B Maynard, Kevin C Desouza, James Kotsias, Monica T Whitty, Richard L Baskerville
Computers & Security | Elsevier BV | Published : 2021
Abstract
Organized, sophisticated and persistent cyber-threat-actors pose a significant challenge to large, high-value organizations. They are capable of disrupting and destroying cyber infrastructures, denying organizations access to IT services, and stealing sensitive information including intellectual property, trade secrets and customer data. Past research points to Situation Awareness as critical to effective response. However, most research has focused on the technological perspective with comparatively less focus on the practice perspective. We therefore present an in-depth case study of a leading financial organization with a well-resourced and mature incident response capability that has evo..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work is supported by the Australian Research Council through the Discovery Projects scheme (DP160102277) "Enhancing Information Security Management through Organizational Learning".