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Module 1: Introduction to Cybersecurity Incident Response
This module highlights the significance of incident response, explores various cybersecurity incidents, and introduces the critical roles within an effective Incident Response Team (IRT).
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Module 2: Incident Response Lifecycle
This module covers the phases of the incident response lifecycle, from preparation and identification to containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned, ensuring a structured approach to handling cybersecurity incidents.
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Module 3: Preparation for Incident Response
This module focuses on preparing for cybersecurity incidents, including establishing policies, creating an incident response plan, setting up tools and technologies, and training response teams for effective readiness.
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Module 4: Identifying Cybersecurity Incidents
This module focuses on recognizing cybersecurity incidents, understanding indicators of compromise (IoCs), and utilizing monitoring systems, including SIEM, for effective incident detection and timely reporting.
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Module 5: Effective Incident Containment
This module focuses on strategies for effectively containing cybersecurity incidents, including isolating affected systems, maintaining communication, and preventing further escalation to minimize damage and impact.
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Module 6: Eradication of Threats
This module focuses on identifying the root cause of cybersecurity incidents, removing threats such as malware, securing configurations, and ensuring thorough verification of threat elimination to restore system integrity.
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Module 7: Recovery and Post-Incident Steps
This module focuses on restoring affected systems and services after an incident, ensuring system integrity, validating recovery efforts, and rebuilding confidence with stakeholders through effective post-incident procedures.
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Module 8: Lessons Learned and Continuous Improvement
This module focuses on conducting post-incident reviews, updating response plans, enhancing security measures, and leveraging lessons learned to continuously improve incident response strategies and organizational resilience.
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Module 9: Legal, Compliance, and Reporting
This module explains the legal obligations and compliance requirements during incident response, including reporting standards, communicating with authorities, and managing public and media interactions during a cybersecurity incident.
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Module 11: Incident Response in Different Environments
This module explores incident response strategies for different environments, including on-premises systems, cloud platforms, and mobile devices, with a focus on adapting techniques for specific threats like ransomware.
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Module 12: Simulating and Testing Incident Response
This module focuses on testing and simulating incident response through tabletop exercises, red team vs. blue team simulations, and penetration testing to evaluate and improve response readiness and effectiveness.
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Cybersecurity Incident Response Basics
About Lesson

Short-Term vs Long-Term Containment

During the containment phase, it is important to distinguish between short-term containment and long-term containment:

 

Short-Term Containment:

  • Purpose: The goal of short-term containment is to stop the attack immediately and limit its impact. This often involves quick, temporary measures, such as disconnecting affected systems, blocking malicious IP addresses, and isolating compromised user accounts.
  • Actions: Actions taken during short-term containment are intended to provide immediate relief and prevent further damage until a more thorough containment approach is possible.

 

Long-Term Containment:

  • Purpose: Long-term containment focuses on ensuring the attack is fully controlled without compromising operational capabilities. It involves more strategic actions, such as applying patches, configuring firewalls, or segmenting the network to prevent the threat from spreading further.
  • Actions: Long-term containment measures should be designed to provide ongoing protection while the response team works on eradication and recovery efforts. These actions should be well-documented and involve consultation with other teams (e.g., IT, legal, communications).

 

Effective containment strategies require a balance between immediate actions to mitigate the attack’s impact and more strategic, long-term measures to prevent the incident from reoccurring.