Incident Response & Forensics

Services - Incident Response & Forensics

Technology will continue to evolve, making cyber crime an ever present and changing reality, which is not at all avoidable. With the growth of computer technology and the exploitation of technology in union with cyber forensics and law enforcement there is rapid and exciting growth. Simultaneously, there are continued opportunities for illegal activities which can be carried out in a matter of millisecond from remote geographical distance.

Our Computer forensics services involve the safeguarding, detection, extraction and documentation of computer evidence stored in the form of magnetically, optically, or electronically stored media.

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Services - Incident Response & Forensics

The infection vectors like network-aware worms, trojans, DDoS agents, IRC Controlled bots, spyware are continuously increasing threat to various organizations. The intruders and malicious agents now use techniques like email harvesting, browser exploits, vulnerabilities in software products (MS Office, Adobe, etc.), operating system vulnerabilities, and P2P networks to spread. A relatively large percentage of the software that a normal internet user encounters in his online journeys can be malicious in some kind of way.

Organizations think that malware and trojans can be stopped by using antivirus software, spyware removal tools and other similar tools. However, this fortification is not always enough and there are times when a small, benign looking binary sneaks through all levels of protection and compromises confidential data giving a threat to organizations security.

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Services - Incident Response & Forensics

Our expertise in information security research and development is used by many organizations, government agencies and the wider IT security community. With Torrid as your partner, you've always got access to our research team. In addition, we will proactively keep you abreast of all related research that pertains to your environment.

Information Security Research and Development services for government organizations and defense include:

1. Writing custom plugins for penetration testing frameworks
2. Development of customized modules for Metasploit Framework and extensions for meterpreter
3. Vulnerability Research
4. Exploit PoC development
5. IPS Signature Writing
6. C&C analysis, hijacking and take down
7. Developing customized information security tools

Services - Incident Response & Forensics

How much is the cost that an organization has to bear after a phishing scam? This question has been challenging the security industry since attacks began to appear. According to Gartner study released in December 2007, phishing attacks represent an overwhelming amount of fraud, costing organizations more than 3 billion dollars annually.

Phishing sites learn the passwords, and other personal details of the users who are fooled into visiting them. Scammers send a mass email to every address they can find. Typically the message will appear to come from a bank or financial institution.

This increase in phishing is hardly a surprise, as this form of online fraud has grown into one of the most common and most profitable scams for criminals.

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