Incident Response
Prepared, evidence-driven response — containment, eradication and recovery.
Short answer: Incident response is the organised practice of detecting, containing, eradicating and recovering from security incidents, with evidence collection and post-incident learning as core requirements.
Evidence: CISA · NIST · Industry playbooks · Human reviewed
Definition
Incident response is the organised practice of detecting, containing, eradicating and recovering from security incidents, with evidence collection and post-incident learning as core requirements.
Major Entities
- CVE CVE-2021-44228 — CVE-2021-44228 (Log4Shell)
- CVE — CVE-2023-34362 (MOVEit)
Timeline
- — Ransomware drives IR playbooks to standardisation
- — Cloud-first IR tooling matures
Latest Intelligence
- Ransomware crisis-response playbooks
- Cloud-native IR tooling
Evidence & Sources
CISA · NIST · Industry playbooks · NVD · CISA KEV · MITRE ATT&CK
Related Intelligence
- Threat actor: Lockbit
- Threat actor: Cl0p
- Campaign: Moveit Cl0p Exploitation
- Campaign: Colonial Pipeline Darkside
- Research: IR measurement benchmarks
- Research: IR-to-SOC integration patterns
Next Actions
Part of the OpenTrojan Security Knowledge Hub 2.0: Ransomware · Malware · Threat Intelligence · Vulnerability Management · Cloud Security · Identity Security · Supply Chain · Zero Day · Nation State Threats