Definition
Cybersecurity preparedness assists public and private sector agencies in being ready for cybersecurity incidents that may occur and are essential for the mitigation of materialized cybersecurity threats.
Introduction
Cybersecurity measures have retrospective and prospective capabilities. Retrospectively, these measures seek to respond to incidents while they are occurring or after they have occurred. Generally, this form of cybersecurity seeks to take action or solve something after the fact. Prospectively, these measures seek to mitigate or prevent something from occurring in the future. Cybersecurity measures, therefore, seek to anticipate threats before they materialize, forestall threats, and take action to lessen the impact of a threat once it has materialized. Having incident response plans in place is not all that is needed. These plans need to be viable and useful in the event of cybersecurity incidents to guide individuals involved in incident response on the ways...
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Further Readings
Brangetto, P., Çalişkan, E., & Rõigas, H. (2015). Cyber Red Teaming: Organisational, technical and legal implications in a military context. NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. https://ccdcoe.org/uploads/2018/10/Cyber_Red_Team.pdf
Dewar, R. S. (2018). Cybersecurity and cyberdefense exercises. Center for Security Studies (CSS) Cyber Defense Report, ETH Zürich. https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/Cyber-Reports-2018-10-Cyber_Exercises.pdf
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Maras, MH.(. (2020). Cybersecurity: Preparedness. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_302-1
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