Incident Response Archives

You cannot see what you do not have

We see time and time again in our incident response practice department scenarios where long-term systemic malware resides in a seemingly secure environment for months at a time. (more…)

Incident Response Readiness-Ready for a breach?

Incident Response Readiness – Is your organization ready for a breach? Have you ever undergone a breach? Is there a breach going on right now? Or, ahem… have you undergone a breach and were not even aware that it occurred? Yikes… (more…)

Incident Response Readiness

An offering of ours, Incident Response Readiness, I think, is going to see a lot more attention in the coming year. Already noticing it. (more…)

Incident Response — The Changing Face of Malware

When someone says “you have malware”, what do you think of? Do you remember the “old days” when a virus was simply an annoyance, blue screening Windows machines, slowing your machine speed, or popping up false firewall advertisements? Unfortunately, those “old days” are long gone. Malware has changed drastically in recent years. (more…)

Forensic Analysis

We get calls for forensic analysis and investigation for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it’s a breach and the client wants to find out how bad the damage was, if anything was taken, if there’s any leave behind like malware, etc. Sometimes it’s an internal investigation on an employee for suspected theft or for breaking a company policy. (more…)

Network Security Engineering Services

One of the things that makes HALOCK a hybrid services firm is our unique practice groups, plus we bring to the table skill sets ranging from governance and strategy, PCI QSA knowledge, assessments and compliance, security solutions, and very seasoned network security engineering services. (more…)

Incident Response Handling

You have an incident – may be a breach in progress, may be a breach that happened a while ago but is just noticed – what is your incident response? What do you do? Do you have a plan? Have you tested your plan recently? Is everyone trained in their responder role? (more…)