Incident response is an organized, strategic approach to detecting and managing cyber attacks in ways that limit damage, recovery time and costs. This guide shows how to establish an incident response strategy. It then outlines steps needed to craft a plan and put in place the team and tools required to minimize the fallout when a cyber attack hits your organization.

Threats from cyberattacks continue to grow in frequency and severity. Considering the potential disruptions from such events, an organization needs an incident response plan..

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• Paul Kirvan

An incident response plan, sometimes called an incident management plan or emergency management plan, is a set of instructions to detect, respond to and limit the effects of an information security event. It provides clear guidelines for a variety of cyberattacks, such as data breaches, DDoS attacks, firewall breaches, ransomware and malware, insider threats, data loss and other disruptive security incidents.