Incident Response & Disaster Recovery
Develop a robust incident response plan and implement disaster recovery strategies to effectively handle security breaches and maintain business continuity.
Why Prepare for Security Incidents?
Security incidents are an unfortunate reality. An Incident Response (IR) plan helps your organization detect, react, and recover effectively when a breach or attack occurs.
Without a clear plan, security incidents can lead to chaos, significantly increasing damage, data loss, and recovery time. Being prepared is key to minimizing impact.
Six Phases of Incident Response
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) outlines a widely adopted IR lifecycle. It's a structured approach to manage incidents from start to finish:
- Preparation: Getting ready
- Detection & Analysis: Spotting the threat
- Containment: Limiting damage
- Eradication: Removing the cause
- Recovery: Restoring operations
- Post-Incident Activity: Learning and improving
All lessons in this course
- Integrating Security into CI/CD (DevSecOps)
- Security Testing (SAST, DAST, IAST)
- Incident Response & Disaster Recovery
- Threat Intelligence & Vulnerability Management