ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
After an incident is resolved, which phase involves reviewing what happened, documenting lessons learned, and updating procedures?
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Lessons learned
The lessons learned phase captures improvements for future incidents.
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Eradication
Why it's wrong here
Eradication removes the cause.
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Containment
Why it's wrong here
Containment stops the incident.
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Lessons learned
Why this is correct
This phase focuses on post-incident review and improvement.
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Recovery
Why it's wrong here
Recovery restores normal operations.
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Incident Response and Management
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Incident
An incident is a security event that violates an organization's policies or threatens its data, systems, or operations, requiring a structured response.
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Lessons learned
Lessons learned is the process of capturing, analyzing, and documenting knowledge gained from past incidents or projects to improve future security operations and prevent recurrence of problems.
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