The document discusses the importance of implementing detective and preventative measures to avoid and respond to security incidents in organizations. It emphasizes the need for security professionals to understand common attack methods and highlights techniques such as intrusion detection and prevention systems for detecting incidents. The document also calls for selecting a common attack and exploring its prevention and detection methods, supported by current news examples.

1. Detective and Preventative Measures
Ideally, an organization can avoid incidents completely by
implementing preventive countermeasures. When an incident
does occur, an organization will want to detect it as soon as
possible. Intrusion detection and prevention systems are some
of the ways that organizations detect incidents. Security
professionals need to understand common attack methods so
that they can take proactive steps to prevent them. Select a
common attack, describe the attack and how organizations
attempt to prevent the attack from happening, and explain how
they detect and respond to the attack. Research current news for
attacks for the example you have provided.