Retweeting or forwarding news articles about a cyber breach seems
somewhat mindless. A company
made the headlines for being breached...again. It might be mildly interesting if the breached party is
a technology vendor or a management consulting company with a cyber
practice.The frequency is overwhelming.
That said, is there really
any value left in being the 10,000th person to retweet or forward
the link about that latest breach?
Perhaps there is a different way to think about cyber news.
Every breach has something to learn or that can be added to
an incident response plan.
The Equifax breach and their inquiry web page hosted on a non-equifax
domain.
The recent ransomware incident in a major city and the issue
that they faced with numerous vendors making incessant product pitches in the
middle of incident response.
The salesforce outage and the clearly practiced speed at which they came to a
decision to shut down their services during their incident.
That company in which two employees attended enough on-boarding
to receive their paychecks for a year but not on-boarded enough to actually
have to show up to work for that year.
There is a gold nugget to be found in every incident – missing
controls, playbook additions, disaster recovery decision-making.
Highlighting that gold nugget in your tweet or share makes
your share more interesting. More useful. Adds more value.
It also makes you unique on social media and demonstrates
your understanding of the finer points of cyber security.
And, there is certainly value in that.
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for discussion and the latest blog updates: @Opinionatedsec1. Or, start your
own discussion using #crazygoodcyberteams on twitter or Linkedin and I'll read
it.
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