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NIST Issues Updated Guidance for Preventing and Handling Malware Incidents
Practical Law Legal Update 8-539-8265 (Approx. 3 pages)
NIST Issues Updated Guidance for Preventing and Handling Malware Incidents
by��Practical Law Intellectual Property & Technology
| Published on 29 Aug 2013 • USA (National/Federal) |
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a Guide to Malware Incident Prevention and Handling for Desktops and Laptops.
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a Guide to Malware Incident Prevention and Handling for Desktops and Laptops (Guide) on July 27, 2013. The Guide provides:
- Background information on major malware categories.
- Recommendations for improving malware incident prevention measures.
- Guidance for strengthening existing incident response capabilities to better handle malware incidents.
The Guide recommends that organizations:
- Develop and implement an approach to preventing malware incidents.
- Ensure that organizational policies address preventing malware incidents.
- Include the prevention and handling of malware incidents in awareness programs.
- Ensure vulnerability mitigation capabilities to help prevent malware incidents.
- Perform threat mitigation to contain malware incidents.
- Use defensive architecture methods to reduce the impact of malware incidents.
- Develop a resilient incident response capability that includes:
- preparation;
- detection and analysis;
- containment;
- eradication;
- recovery; and
- post-incident activity.