A story from the Secureworks® incident response (IR) trenches reveals how much work went into ensuring that "nothing bad happened" after a customer missed a patch on a web server.

A Winning Combination: Hardening, Early Threat Detection, and Rapid Response

Alexandros

Secureworks Emergency Incident Response team can provide you immediate assistance responding to and remediating a possible cyber incident or data breach. Call now for 24/7 Incident Response:

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A Winning Combination: Hardening, Early Threat Detection, and Rapid Response