‘Tis the season to be attacked, and time is of the essence, especially during the festive period. High-volume sales periods are important for your business's bottom line and customers are relying on you.
In our previous blog we discussed how fraudsters leave signals of an attack, like a trail of breadcrumbs, that help you identify the malicious activity. Poor visibility allows fraudsters to maximize the ROI of their attack campaign. Your ability to detect these signals is a critical element of your incident response strategy.
In this blog, we move to the next stage. It’s not enough to know you’re under attack. It's also critical to have a fast incident response to shut it down as quickly as possible and minimize damage.
It’s beginning to look a lot like an attack….
How do you know you’re under attack? The scenario is all too common:
- Your website is under attack and the attacker is targeting a sensitive endpoint – registration, login and submit payment
- Your existing toolset is unable to detect or mitigate the attack
- Your business is losing money, your site is unstable and your customer’s data is at risk
How to best respond to an attack: your move
Introducing a new security tool into your stack can be challenging, disruptive, and time-consuming. But sometimes it is absolutely necessary.
- Too often legacy security solutions are slow, cumbersome, and confusing to configure. This complexity only increases the risks associated with change and slows your time to respond
- Internal dynamics can restrict your speed of response. Decision-making between departments can be challenging at any time. When you add the pressure of a highly profitable event and the impact of a cyber attack, the pressure can become overwhelming
