ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
Which phase of the incident response process involves restoring systems to normal operations and confirming they are functioning correctly?
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Recovery
Recovery is the phase after eradication where systems are restored and tested.
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Recovery
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Recovery restores operations and verifies functionality.
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Detection
Why it's wrong here
Detection is identifying the incident.
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Containment
Why it's wrong here
Containment limits damage.
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Eradication
Why it's wrong here
Eradication removes the threat.
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Security Operations Basics
Key term
Incident response
Incident response is the structured approach an organization uses to identify, contain, and recover from cybersecurity incidents like data breaches or ransomware attacks.
Key term
Eradication
Eradication is the phase in incident response where the root cause of a security breach is completely removed from the system to prevent the attack from happening again.
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