Introduction to Incident Management Tools
Incident management tools are software applications that help organizations manage incidents, track and monitor incident response progress, and measure the effectiveness of their incident response teams. They are essential to any organization's incident response plan and can help incident response teams coordinate their efforts, communicate with stakeholders, and document their work.
Various its tools are available, each with its features and capabilities. Some of its tools are designed for specific types of incidents, while others are more general purpose. Some are available as standalone applications, while others are integrated into larger incident response platforms.
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What is an Incident?
Before diving into the details of incident management tools, it is essential to understand what an incident is. An incident is an event that has the potential to disrupt normal operations and cause harm to people, property, or the environment. Natural disasters, human error, or malicious activity can cause an incident.
Organizations must be prepared to respond to incidents quickly and effectively to minimize the impact on their operations and stakeholders. To do this, they need an incident response plan that outlines the steps that need to be taken to contain and resolve an incident.
An incident response plan should be designed to address the specific needs of the organization and the type of incidents it is likely to experience. It should identify who is responsible for each response step and how they should coordinate their efforts.
Its tools are essential to any organization's incident response plan. They can help incident response teams coordinate their efforts, communicate with stakeholders, and document their work.
Its tools can also help organizations track and monitor incident response progress and measure the effectiveness of their incident response teams. This information can improve the incident response plan and the management tools used.
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What are the types of Incident Management tools?
Various incident management tools are available, each with features and capabilities. Some of its tools are designed for specific types of incidents, while others are more general purpose. Some are available as standalone applications, while others are integrated into larger incident response platforms.
Here are some of the most common types of incident management tools:
Emergency Notification Systems
Emergency notification systems are designed to help organizations quickly and easily notify stakeholders of an incident. They can send messages to various devices, including phones, computers, and tablets.
Emergency notification systems typically include a way to segment stakeholders into groups so that only the people who need to be notified of an incident receive the message. This can help reduce the time spent sending messages to people who don't need to be notified.
Incident Management Software
Its software is a type of application that helps organizations manage incidents. It can track and monitor incident response progress and measure the effectiveness of incident response teams.
Incident management software typically includes a way to segment incidents into categories so they can be easily managed and monitored. It also typically includes assigning incident response team members to specific incidents.
Communication Tools
Communication tools are designed to help incident response team members communicate with each other and with stakeholders. They can send messages, share files, and collaborate on incident response plans.
Data Management Tools
Data management tools are designed to help organizations manage the data associated with incidents. This data can include incident reports, incident response plans, and communication logs.
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What to look for in an Incident Management Tool?
Here are some of the things to look for in an incident management tool:
Ease of Use
The incident management tool should be easy to use. It should be intuitive and easy to navigate. The user interface should be simple and straightforward. The tool should be easy to deploy. It should require minimal training to use.
Compatibility
The tool should be compatible with our organization's other tools and systems. It should be able to integrate with our organization's existing incident response plan.
Flexibility
These tool should be flexible. It should be able to adapt to the changing needs of our organization. It should scale as our organization grows.
Reporting
These tool should include a way to generate reports. These reports should be customizable so that they can be tailored to the specific needs of our organization.
Pricing
The cost of the tool should be considered. The tool should be affordable for our organization. It should offer a good value for its features and capabilities.
Free Trial
The incident management tool should offer a free trial. This will allow us to try the tool.
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What are the Best Incident Management Tools?
The three best incident management tools are:
Cynet 360
Accelerate and streamline response workflows with lightning-fast visibility into inspected environments, advanced forensic tools, automated threat detection, and a complete set of remediation actions. Cynet also has a 24/7 Incident Response team to assist organizations that have been attacked.
| Full Environment Visibility | Precise Threat Insights | Complete Recovery Actions |
| Get instant visibility into hosts, files and processes, logs, network traffic, and user activity. | Get real-time, accurate threat intelligence automatically generated by the Cynet 360 AutoXDR™ correlation engine. | Isolated infected hosts, disable compromised user accounts, remove malicious files, and block dangerous network connections. |
| Distribute open source IR tools across our environment using Cynet's central management console. | For in-depth investigation, conduct an end-to-end investigation using in-depth forensic tools to determine the scope and impact of an attack. | We can craft our own remediation policies for automated threat blocking and removal. |
| Get verdict, attack scope, and all indicators immediately. | Trust our skills. Proactively scan for threats with the help of a well-known local IOC. | Build custom remediation playbooks to automate multiple remediation actions across your environment. |
| Pros | Cons |
| Threat intelligence, Deception Technology | Due to glitches in the dashboard, few alerts fail to reflect. |
| It provides lots of information which is helps in analyzing | The user management interface is a bit outdated. |
| Wild card features are added on. | The UI is a little complex. |
GRR Rapid Response
GRR, Rapid Response, is an incident response framework focused on remote live forensics.
GRR's goal is to support forensics and investigations in a fast and scalable manner. This allows analysts to triage attacks and conduct analysis remotely quickly. GRR consists of two parts, the client and the server.
The GRR client is deployed on the systems we want to investigate. In each such system, after deployment, the GRR client periodically polls her GRR front-end server for work. "Work" means performing a specific action, such as downloading a file, listing a directory, etc.
The GRR server infrastructure consists of multiple components (front-end, worker, UI server), a web-based graphical user interface, and an analyst that can schedule actions on the client and view and process the collected data.
| Client features | Server features |
| It provides cross-platform support for Linux, OS X and Windows user client | Full-fledged response capabilities for most incident response and forensic tasks. |
| Powerful search and download capabilities for files and the Windows registry. | Support for enterprise hunting (searching a fleet of machines). |
| It is safe for communication infrastructure which is designed for the Internet deployment. | A fully scalable backend that can handle large deployments. |
TheHive Project
A Four in one Security Incident response platform
Scalable and accessible, tightly integrated with MISP (Malware Information Sharing Platform) and designed to make life easier for SOCs, CSIRTs, CERTs, and all information security professionals dealing with security incidents that require investigation and response's open source incident response platform coming soon.
TheHive supports different ways of storing data, files, and indexes depending on your needs. However, we strongly recommend using Apache Cassandra as a scalable, fault-tolerant database, even for a standalone production server. File and index storage may vary depending on the target configuration. A local file system is exemplary for a stand-alone server, but multiple cluster configurations are possible.
The HiveProject has documentation as well, which shows the whole process, and we can find it here: https://docs.thehive-project.org/thehive/
Comparison of Cynet360, GRR Rapid response, and TheHive project
| Cynet360 | GRR Rapid | TheHive |
| It has lightning-fast visibility into inspected environments. | It focuses more on remote live forensics. | It is Malware Information Sharing Platform |
| There no such parts are there in Cynet360 | It has two part, the client and the server. | A Four in one Security Incident response platform. |
| Accelerate and streamline response workflows | A fully scalable backend that can handle large deployments. | Scalable and free, tightly integrated with MISP |
| Recommendation -> 1 | Recommendation -> 2 | Recommendation -> 3 |
Conclusion
When choosing an incident management tool, it is essential to consider the specific needs of our organization and the types of incidents we are likely to experience. It is also essential to consider the features and capabilities that we need. No matter what type of tool we choose, it is essential to ensure that it meets the specific needs of our organization and that it is compatible with our other incident response tools and systems. The incident response plan should also include procedures for communicating with stakeholders, documenting the incident, and measuring the effectiveness of the response. These tool should be compatible with our incident response team members' devices. It should be able to send messages to phones, computers, and tablets. The incident management tool should be able to handle a variety of incident types. It should segment incidents into categories to easily manage and monitor them.
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