What is incident response plan (IRP) and what are the major phases of incident response plan?
Incident response plan (IRP) is a set of procedures established to help organizations detect, analyze, respond, recover and remediate from security incidents. And it addresses different cyber incidents such as data loss, cybercrime, data leakage, and service outages through phishing, social engineering, malware and so forth cyberattacks that threaten business operations and services.
Organizations develop incident response plan (IRP) to handle significant security threats and incidents that may lead to massive business disruptions or data breaches. Incident response plan (IRP) enables incident response team (IRT) to stop, contain, mitigate and control security incident as quickly as possible.
Major steps in incident response plan (IRP) include the following:
- Preparation
- Detection
- Response
- Mitigation
- Reporting
- Recovery
- Remediation
- Lessons learned