Putting Your Incident Management Playbook Into Action: Part 4 – Remediate

Putting Your Incident Management Playbook Into Action: Part 4 – Remediate

Throughout this series, we have explored the steps for putting your incident management playbook into action. So far, we have taken a look into the Prepare, Investigate, and Assess stages. In this installment, we will delve into the measures that should be taken when responding and remediating a significant security incident.  

Steps for Remediation

For organizations putting their incident management playbook into action, defining a remediation strategy is a critical stage. Having worked through the previous stages of the playbook, incident management teams should consider the following when remediating damages caused by the incident, these include:

• Determine containment measures to limit damage 
• Collect and preserve evidence
• Perform forensic analysis 

Further resources for incident management: 

• Get started: OneTrust Incident Management
• OneTrust eBook: Incident Management Playbook
• OneTrust Resource: Incident Management Tabletop Exercise

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