By Sally Watson, 2 June 1999 16:42
NEWS US security specialist, Meta Security Group today launched Cavalre-Response, a crisis response package to help corporates deal with criminal activity and security breaches. Depending on which level of service a company buys - basic, gold or platinum - it will receive a personalised response program advising how to control the security breach, prevent further damage and meet the strict legal requirement for preserving evidence in case of legal action. If necessary, a Cavalre-Response team will fly out to the company site. According to Randy Grubb, director of Cavalre-Response, the US government has been using this type of security squad for years, but the model has only just been applied to the corporate environment. Grubb said: "Computer forensics is very new - being able to take recovered data and put the puzzle together to find out what happened." Grubb added that most IT staff will rush to restart a server after a 'denial-of-service attack', without realising that this destroys evidence stored on the server hard drive. "It's a knee-jerk reaction, but using the server means altering evidence. Computer forensics has to be a very precise, scientific process - two days later it is no good," he said.
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