Suppose you are the security lead for an IT team. Your manager has asked you to share information about the SolarWinds incident with the leadership team and recommend actions to prevent a similar attack from taking place.
In the leadership briefing, you’ll need to create a presentation with three to five slides summarizing key incident information and your recommendations.
You can refer to this as an example of what your report might look like and what type of content it might contain. If you don’t have PowerPoint, you may need to use or another app to open the file.
Be sure to do the following key tasks, which you learned about above, as you prepare for the leadership presentation:
Provide a briefing of the incident. Your slides should provide the key facts, and the story of the incident should be explained by you during the presentation.
Describe the significance of the incident above. Your response should include who or what systems are affected, the scope of the issue, etc.
Describe the known information about the threat actors involved.
State your recommendation. Imagine yourself in the role of a cybersecurity analyst. Summarize your recommendation for the next steps.
List your information sources. Include specific common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) information.