Not a day passes by without people hearing of a new data breach that has just been leaked. The reasons for this are numerous, and we’ve already dug into some of them in our previous blog posts. We’ve also explained what hackers do and dug into the methods you can use to protect from attacks that hackers use to harm your infrastructure, however, we have not yet provided you with a list of the indicators of a possible compromise.
The indicators of compromise help you figure out whether you’ve been impacted by an attack on the web. They’re important to everybody, but they might have even more impact on your day-to-day life if you find yourself spending a significant amount of time online (perhaps you’re working remotely or you’re spending time to educate yourself on technology outside of work?)
The more indicators of compromise you can recognize, the better it is for your cyber safety – they will help you better protect your employees, friends, and family, since a potential compromise of your online accounts can affect both your online and offline life. Attackers are ruthless – if they get ahold of your password and you find yourself re-using those across multiple online mediums, they will surely take advantage of that and you could find yourself losing access to even more online accounts such as Gmail, perhaps even Facebook or PayPal – depending on where that password was re-used.
If attackers take control of your credit or debit cards, that’s a different story – oh, and have we told you that attackers are also interested in other kinds of identification like Social Security Numbers and driver’s licenses?
You get it – the consequences of a potential data breach can be very severe. However, there are multiple things we can do to familiarize ourselves with the data breach landscape and protect ourselves from a data breach in the future. By knowing at least a couple of the indicators of compromise, you and the people working in your company could not only protect themselves from identity theft, but advice other people how best to deal with such incidents. Everyone wins!
However, it’s important to note that indicators of compromise, frequently referred to as “IoC”, most of the time are highly technical in nature – indicators are everything that can indicate that a breach has already occurred and immediate action is necessary.
To help protect your staff from the dangers of identity theft, look for these signs within the infrastructure of your company:
Familiarize yourself with these indicators of compromise and keep them in mind for future reference – if your security staff comes to you with a concern involving one or more of these likely indicators, alarm bells should be setting off.
Now that you know what might be the most likely indicators of compromise, it’s time to familiarize yourself with the methods you can employ to protect yourself and your teammates from an incoming attack. Here’s what you should do:
Finally, consider using a data breach search engine like the one provided by BreachDirectory – data breach search engines are famous for letting companies and individuals alike evaluate the extent of their exposure to identity theft. BreachDirectory will not only let you know whether you’ve been exposed to a data breach in the past, but also let your company secure its employees by running a bulk account search through its API offering, and if that’s not enough, it will also notify you if your account appears in any of the data breaches that are going to be imported into the data breach search engine in the future.
In this blog post, we’ve walked you through a couple of potential indicators of compromise (IoC) that could signal that a data breach has taken place and provided some advice on how you should act in order to protect yourself, your team, and your loved ones from a data breach in the future.
We hope that this blog post has been informational and that you will come back to the blog of BreachDirectory to learn more about threats on the web in the future and until next time!
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