CSA Guide to Cloud Computing

Chapter 9

Dark Clouds, What to Do In The Event of a Security Incident

Abstract

With corporate resources now stored and managed (to some extent) by third parties, the need to have a strong security incident management policy is imperative. This chapter will recommend the steps required to address the fundamental question, what happens when something does go wrong?

Keywords

Human resources; Incident response; Network operations; Service provider

Death and taxes

▪ Building a security incident response team

▪ Incident response challenges in the cloud

▪ The future

▪ Security breach

It is said that in life there are two certainties that we all have to deal with. These are death and taxes. Those of us who work in information security have a third certainty that ...