Latest news with #IncidentResponse
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Prime Minister Carney convenes the Incident Response Group
OTTAWA, ON, June 8, 2025 /CNW/ - Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, convened the Incident Response Group with ministers and senior officials to address the ongoing 2025 wildfire situation affecting many parts of the country. The group was briefed on efforts to respond to the fires and support evacuations. This includes the mobilization of Canadian Armed Forces personnel to assist with the evacuation of Sandy Lake First Nation in Ontario. The Prime Minister emphasized the close contact between various arms of the federal government, premiers, and the Canadian Armed Forces. All orders of government remain engaged, including with Indigenous leadership. Prime Minister Carney and the group thanked all first responders and officials on the ground, and reiterated that the federal government stands ready to mobilize additional support wherever needed and in all aspects. Associated Link Wildfires This document is also available at SOURCE Prime Minister's Office View original content: Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Prime Minister Carney convenes the Incident Response Group
OTTAWA, ON, June 8, 2025 /CNW/ - Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, convened the Incident Response Group with ministers and senior officials to address the ongoing 2025 wildfire situation affecting many parts of the country. The group was briefed on efforts to respond to the fires and support evacuations. This includes the mobilization of Canadian Armed Forces personnel to assist with the evacuation of Sandy Lake First Nation in Ontario. The Prime Minister emphasized the close contact between various arms of the federal government, premiers, and the Canadian Armed Forces. All orders of government remain engaged, including with Indigenous leadership. Prime Minister Carney and the group thanked all first responders and officials on the ground, and reiterated that the federal government stands ready to mobilize additional support wherever needed and in all aspects. Associated Link Wildfires This document is also available at SOURCE Prime Minister's Office View original content:
Channel Post MEA
03-04-2025
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
New Enhancements Enable SolarWinds Tackle Modern IT Operational Resiliency Challenges
SolarWinds has announced the latest enhancements across its portfolio, which integrate expanded capabilities across observability, incident response, service management, and AI-powered automation. These enhancements empower IT teams to navigate complex hybrid environments, accelerate issue resolution, and ensure business continuity in an increasingly complex hybrid IT landscape. 'One of the biggest concerns we hear from customers is how to stay resilient amid rapid technological advancements and economic pressures,' said Cullen Childress, Chief Product Officer at SolarWinds. 'Every new wave of change—from digital transformation to generative AI—feels like a storm threatening their business. They need solutions that not only help them adapt but also strengthen their ability to thrive in the face of disruption.' Solving the IT Operational Resiliency Challenge: The evolving IT environments offer flexibility, scalability, and cost advantages, but they also introduce new levels of complexity. Many IT teams are overwhelmed by: Alert overload – Excessive alerts and event noise obscure critical incidents. – Excessive alerts and event noise obscure critical incidents. Data silos – Fragmented data streams complicate root-cause identification. – Fragmented data streams complicate root-cause identification. Lengthy resolution processes– Inefficient workflows slow remediation and increase downtime risk. IT incidents can be severe—disrupting services, impacting revenue, eroding customer trust, and damaging brand reputation. The SolarWinds integrated portfolio of observability, incident response, and service management, powered by SolarWinds AI, addresses these challenges by correlating alerts, improving decision-making, and accelerating issue resolution. This unified approach enhances performance, availability, and control across complex hybrid IT ecosystems to deliver unmatched operational resilience. Key Enhancements Across the SolarWinds Portfolio: Squadcast Incident Response New to the SolarWinds portfolio, Squadcast Incident Response unites people, processes, and technology, providing a proactive, structured approach to incident response and resolution. Squadcast brings AI-powered alert isolation, on-call management, multi-source alert correlation, standardized runbooks, status pages, and Microsoft Teams and Slack integration for incident swarming, leading to faster issue identification so organizations can minimize downtime, reduce remediation time, and maintain operational resilience. SolarWinds Observability Now supports expanded hybrid IT awareness with deeper and broader single-pane-of-glass visibility across major cloud vendors, including GCP, AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments. These expanded capabilities help ensure a unified and detailed view of your entire hybrid IT environment, enabling proactive management and optimization. The AI-powered Log Insights feature surfaces critical insights from large volumes of log data, identifying patterns, anomalies, and trends that might indicate potential issues. This aids in proactive problem resolution and improves operational resilience by detecting issues before they become major incidents. Root Cause Assist leverages SolarWinds AI to help identify the underlying causes of problems or issues by analyzing data and providing rich, contextual insights. This function automates and accelerates the analysis of application performance issues. SolarWinds Database Observability Entering Tech Preview, SolarWinds AI Query Assist improves database queries by automatically analyzing query patterns and suggesting optimal query rewrites. This provides more accurate and efficient query optimization, helping DBAs improve efficiency and lower production costs caused by excessively long-running queries. SolarWinds Service Desk SolarWinds AI Runbook generation automates the manual and time-consuming task of compiling and formatting pre-written operational guides into new runbooks with standardized resolution processes that enhance operational efficiency and improve incident response times. Data masking improves an organization's compliance with governance and industry regulations of PII, PCI, and sensitive data by masking sensitive information and preventing inadvertent sharing. 'Learning and adapting, core pillars of operational resilience, have been at the heart of success for SolarWinds over the past 25 years,' said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, CEO of SolarWinds. 'Our mission is to share that knowledge with our customers, equipping them with solutions that help them navigate the IT operational resiliency challenges of today and tomorrow's dynamic IT landscape.' Availability The new enhancements to the SolarWinds portfolio are available now, with deployment options tailored to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes. Whether you're a small business or a global enterprise, SolarWinds offers the flexibility to scale with your IT operations. 0 0
Web Release
18-03-2025
- Business
- Web Release
Valid accounts showed significant increase as initial attack vector in 2024
By Editor_wr On Mar 18, 2025 Valid accounts are increasingly being leveraged as an initial attack vector in 2024, representing 31.4% of cases. Public-facing applications still hold the top position with 39.2% of cases. These findings were reported in the recent Kaspersky Incident Response analyst report. The Kaspersky Incident Response analyst report provides insights into cyberattacks investigated by Kaspersky team in 2024, using data from organizations seeking help with incident response and highlights trends in security threats across various sectors and regions. The report aids organizations in enhancing their security measures and developing effective incident response strategies. According to the report, in a concerning trend that has persisted for years, public-facing applications have once again emerged as the primary vector for cyber attacks, accounting for 39.2% of cases in 2024. Valid accounts have solidified their position as the second most common attack vector, representing 31.4% of incidents and showing a significant increase compared to 2023. This surge indicates a growing number of companies being targeted by initial access brokers (IABs), who capitalize on compromised credentials sold on the darknet to facilitate further attacks. This trend is particularly alarming in the context of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), where IABs play a crucial role in streamlining cybercriminal operations. The data also revealed that victims in these cases were often compromised beforehand, leading to leaked credentials without immediate detection. Trusted relationships have seen an uptick from the previous year, now accounting for 12.8% of attack vectors, while phishing remains a significant threat, utilized in nearly one out of every ten cases (9.8%). 'Cyber threats continue to evolve relentlessly, with attackers adapting their methods to exploit the most vulnerable points in companies' defenses. This highlights the critical need for organizations to not only strengthen their immediate security measures but also to cultivate a proactive and adaptive incident response culture that can stay ahead of these emerging risks,' comments Konstantin Sapronov, Head of Global Emergency Response Team at Kaspersky. To protect businesses from possible threats, Kaspersky experts recommend: Implementing robust password policy and multifactor authentication processes. Removing management ports from public access. Establishing a zero-tolerance policy for patch management or compensation measures for public-facing applications. Ensuring that employees maintain a high level of security. Use services like Kaspersky Incident Response or Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response to identify and stop the attack on early stages, before cybercriminals can reach their final goals. The full Incident Response analyst report 2024 is available via this link. Valid accounts showed significant increase as initial attack vector in 2024 Comments are closed.
