Canada, Together with Other Countries, Issues Advisory Aimed at Helping Organizations Protect Themselves Online
Canada, Together with Other Countries, Issues Advisory Aimed at Helping Organizations Protect Themselves Online Canada joins four other countries, Australia, New Zealand, UK and the US, in issuing a joint technical advisory that details approaches for organizations to stay safe from malicious cyber actors. The advisory called “Technical Approaches to Uncovering and Remediating Malicious Activity” highlights technical approaches to uncovering malicious activity and includes mitigation steps according to best practices. The following are the highlights of the joint advisory: Uncovering Malicious Activity To uncover malicious activity, the advisory recommends to organizations to conduct the following: 1. Indicators of compromise (IOC) Search IOC search refers to the hunt of an artifact – referring to any element of a software – on the network or in an operating system that suggests with…