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Blue Team
Fundamentals
Module : 05 | INCIDENT RESPONSE STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES
INCIDENT RESPONSE
STRATEGIES AND
TECHNIQUES
INCIDENT RESPONSE STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES
● Incident response is a process of identifying and
responding to the cyber threat in a post compromise
scenarios. this process typically involves in preparing
● General overview of IR
for, detecting, and responding to security incidents in
● Key component of IR
a systematic and organized manner.
● Working of IR
● IR Lifecycle
● An Effective incident response strategies and
techniques help organizations minimize the impact
of security breaches
General overview of
Incident Response
General overview of Incident Response
● Incident response plays a crucial role in handling and
mitigating various cyber attacks, it generally
encompasses both internal and external processes for
responding to cybersecurity incidents.
● Incident response is a collaborative approach where it
typically involves in various other team which include
security operations, Threat intel, Threat Hunting.
General overview of Incident Response
Generally Incident Responders could be considered as a firefighters for an organization's network or system.
where they are working sole to protect and prevent major threats and/or attacks from happening,
○ planning a well defined strategy
○ Developing various playbook
○ recovering from various cyber attacks
Working of
Incident Response
Working overview of Incident Response
Key Component
Incident Response
Key Component of Incident Response
Reducing incident response time plays a key component of Incident
Response, it helps the organization to detect and respond to a
cybersecurity incident from the moment it occurs.
● Mean Time to Detect/Discover (MTTD)
● Mean Time to Report (MTTR)
● Mean Time to Acknowledge (MTTA)
● Mean Time to Respond (MTTR)
Working of Incident Response Phase 01
Working of Incident Response Phase 02
Working of Incident Response Phase 03
Common
Incident Response
Playbook
Incident Response
Life cycle
Incident Response Life cycle
Preparation
● The first step of incident response begins with the
preparation phase; the principles of incident
The preparation will include detailed instructions on how
response are to create a playbook to deal with such
to prioritise incidents and when they should be escalated.
emergency situations.
these helps the sec operation, malware analysis team,
threat hunting etc.
● Creating such a playbook will assist incident
responders in determining what to do in the event of
a cyberattack.
Detection & Analysis
Detection and analysis are fundamental components of
incident response, crucial for identifying and understanding
security incidents. implementing various security monitoring
tools such as SIEM, EDR, XDR etc will helps us to achieve
comprehensive logging and monitoring system to capture
events and activities across the network and systems.
During the detection and analysis phase, the IR analyst must conduct a thorough investigation to verify
whether the identified pattern, IOC, hash,IP have been accessed and witnessed by other users across the
enterprise
Containment
Containment is engaged in decision-making procedure,
where the IR analyst must determine whether to shut down
the system or disconnect it from the network after detecting
hostile behaviour. these instruction are been included in the
incident response playbook in a detailed manner.
In general, containment is an important aspect of incident
response since it assists the organisation in minimising its
impact.
Eradication
Eradication is the process of eliminating the detected activity and suspicious behaviour, such as harmful
files, deactivating the infected user account, applying IP and URL blocks, and much more.
During the eradication phase, it is advised to identify all affected hosts inside the organisation so that they
may be remediated, in addition to removing the discovered event.
Recovery
Recovery involves restoring an infected system to its original condition by using clean backups, rebuilding,
replacing compromised files, applying fixes, and resetting passwords.
Recovery from a cyber incident often involves data restoration. it's been recommended to generate a
copies of your data from main sources and storing them in a secondary, preferably tertiary, location to
defend against data loss.
Post Incident Analysis / Lesson Learned
One of the major operation of incident response are been
considered as Lesson learned and post incident analysis, in this
phase the analyst are been solely working on documenting and
reviewing the effectiveness of the detection and response efforts.
Identify areas for improvement in tools, processes, and training.
By following such approach the organization can effectively increase
their defence by the post incident activity
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