Computer Incident Response

What constitutes a computer security incident? An incident may be defined as deliberate electronic attack on the communications or information processing systems of an organization performed by a disgruntled employee, a malicious competitor, or a hacker.

Organizations should know how to respond to and handle an attack to control the costs and consequences that could result. In the event of a security incident, organizations should take immediate action to investigate the incident, limit the exposure of confidential data such as cardholder data, banking data any non-public customer information.

ERM can prepare your organization to be ready to handle a security incident by helping you formalize a Computer Incident Response Program. ERM can also serve as an immediate contact to help provide assistance in the identification, containment, and eradication of a security incident.

ERM professionals are also computer forensic experts with great experience with computer forensic investigations. For more details related to computer forensic services, see the related section below.