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: : S E C U R I T Y A N A L Y S I S - How
do you know you have been hacked?
Are your systems penetrated? Or is that message on your
screen telling you the attack was a simple port scan from your service
provider?
These are not easy questions. If you have a team of trained
Security Analysts, it’s not a problem, however if you do not, you need
some help. The internet is a very busy place, so is your internal
network. The internet is growing, and the amount of traffic on it is
substantial. Sometimes entire countries can ping or scan your forwards
facing addresses in a vain attempt to control what its users see.
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Deciding that you have a real incident is key. Is you
business in trouble, is it time to switch all the servers off? Call the
FBI are you even reasonable sure your system have been penetrated?
Better be sure, both choices you are now faced with are not good.
Ignore the attack,
all the information in your system could be in the
hands of an Organized Crime group in Latvia, who will slowly, carefully
bleed you dry. If you were truly attacked and penetrated.
Attempt to stop the
attacker you’re self, clean up your systems and
hope that worked. Can you be sure? Do you have the staff and experience
available for this? Do you have time to go running around trying to
find people?
Un plug everything,
switch off all the firewalls, routers,
switches and servers. Wow this is going to cost a lot, better be sure
the alternative is going to cost you more.
Call law enforcement
and ask for help. Well the first people in your
office will be the local FBI Cyber crime division. Depending on what
you describe to them, for sure they will shut down all your equipment,
in some cases they will confiscate it for Federal evidence. In the mean
time, how would you like to conduct business?
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Deciding
that you have a real incident is key. Is you business in trouble, is it
time to switch all the servers off? Call the FBI are you even
reasonable sure your system have been penetrated? Better be sure, both
choices you are now faced with are not good.
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