Incident Response Planning
Incident response is a systematic approach by which an organization handles a data breach, ransomware attack, or other security incident. Today's active cybercrime landscape demands that every organization have a clear and comprehensive incident response plan. The plan must assign and outline roles and responsibilities, and describe processes and procedures to be activated upon occurrence of a cyber incident. Every employee involved in executing the incident response plan must be trained and should have participated in a series of tests of the plan. As with a solid data backup program, preparedness and effectiveness rely on testing, refining, and testing some more.
A thorough incident response plan should include:
- Definition of what constitutes an incident and the various types of incidents.
- Guidelines in terms of process to be followed depending on the type of incident.
- Procedures for incident handling and reporting.
- Procedures for investigation, reporting, communications.
- Procedures for containment, eradication, and recovery.
- Once the incident has been fully addressed, a proposed remediation process to prevent similar incidents in the future.
Our services for incident response planning
As a trusted partner in incident response planning and testing, 24By7Security will work with you to develop an end-to-end process for effective incident response. Our planning services include, but are not limited to:
- Preparation of a comprehensive incident response policy and plan for your business, including ransomware incidents.
- Recommended timelines for various steps in your incident response process.
- Process and procedures for detection, reporting, investigation.
- Guidelines for managing communications internally and externally.
- Processes for containment, eradication, and recovery based on the type of incident.
- Testing exercises to thoroughly test and refine your incident response plan.
- Process for capturing lessons learned and implementing appropriate remediation.