Incident Response

Domain 6: Incident Awareness & Response Protocols

When a cyber incident occurs, speed is the ultimate metric. Attacker "dwell time" has shrunk to minutes. The golden rule for employees is simple: Report, do not fix. Trying to fix a live intrusion yourself wastes critical time.  

A critical element of rapid response is evidence preservation. If a device is compromised, shutting down clears the Random Access Memory (RAM), destroying the volatile evidence of fileless malware. Employees must be trained to disconnect the Wi-Fi simply.  

However, technical response is only half the battle; culture is the other. Elite organizations conduct Blameless Postmortems. The goal is not to fire the employee who clicked the link, but to find the system failure that allowed the mistake to occur. Punishing employees destroys psychological safety, causing future breaches to be hidden. Furthermore, establishing a strict Chain of Command is vital; unauthorized external communication bypasses Legal and PR teams, potentially violating regulatory disclosure laws.  

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