The cyber threat landscape is expanding, and security incidents are a reality today. Every day brings news of more cyberattacks and even more sophisticated types of attack. We are operating in an environment where cyber events are inevitable and security teams must be ready to respond, recover and re establish the trust as quickly as possible. As per KPMG 2021 CEO Outlook, 75% CEOs believe a strong cyber strategy is critical to engender trust with key stakeholders.

Cyber incidents are inevitable, due to increased reliance of business on digital ecosystem and the changing threat landscape. In addition, challenges in following effective incident response procedures, made it imperative to have strategically planned and professionally managed cyber response programme. We have explored key critical elements of cyber response management that would help organisation to play and win in the on-going cyber game.

Organisations need to take response strategy seriously and understand that incident response management requires adopting a multipronged approach to have the right skill set and diverse experience to work together with common objectives. In today’s environment, it is imperative to have a state-of-the-art cyber response readiness. There are multiple dimensions that need to be established ranging from specialised skill set, technology setup, intelligence and stakeholder involvement and practicing the ways of working, to reduce uncertainties.

Traditional approaches have not been effective and require adoption of a more agile approach to investigate and recovery planning to go hand in hand in order to eliminate persistent backdoors. Fallout from an unprofessional response to an incident has been more damaging than the incident itself, therefore cyber response measures in today’s digital age require agility, comprehensiveness and standardisation to think beyond organisational boundaries and known threat landscape. Organisations need to take response strategy seriously and understand that incident response management requires adopting a multipronged approach to have the right skill set and diverse experience to work together with common objectives. Engaging with all stakeholders to ensure appropriate support and decision making, is essential in order to provide strategic and tactical insight in end to end response to incident.

Incident management and response practices must evolve with more automation and advanced strategies for early detection, automated response and rapid analysis within the legal and compliance boundaries to deal with new-age cyber attacks.

KPMG in India helps organisations to create a resilient and trusted digital world even in the face of evolving threats. Our cyber security professionals offer a multidisciplinary view of risk, helping to carry security throughout the organisation and get an edge with secure and trusted technology.No matter where you are on your cyber security journey, KPMG firms have expertise across the continuum from the boardroom to the data centre . In addition to assessing your cyber security and aligning it to your business priorities, we can help you develop advanced solutions, assist with implementing them, advise on monitoring ongoing risks and help you respond effectively to cyber incidents. We help organisations in “pre-incident readiness journey”, “incident investigation” to “post incident” analysis. Our services are structured to quickly enhance organisation’s cyber response maturity to help them emerge as winner in this ongoing game.

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