Glossary
Incident Response (IR)
The organized process an organization follows to prepare for, detect, contain, eradicate, and recover from a cybersecurity incident, typically following a documented plan and playbooks. A widely referenced lifecycle defines four phases: preparation, detection and analysis, containment/eradication/recovery, and post-incident activity.
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