Incident Response Tool

In brief:

This tool outlines the key steps that boards should consider in order to ensure that their corporations have an effective incident response program. Incident response capability is essential for quickly detecting incidents, minimizing loss to the organization, and restoring business services. This brief originally appeared in Cyber Risk Oversight 2020: Key Principals and Practical Guidance for Corporate Boards and was written by Nasrin Rezai, global chief information and product cybersecurity officer, General Electric and Greg Montana, chief risk officer, FIS.

This resource can help your board to

• recover from cybersecurity incidents in a timely fashion,
• detect incidents quickly in order to restore business services, and
• create a plan to protect the corporation from cybersecurity incidents.

Most relevant audiences: Risk committee chairs, risk committee members, and CISOs