When your organization gets breached, the response matters as much as the breach itself. The industry standard is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which breaks response into four phases.

Before the incident, you prepare. Establish an incident response team and define roles. Document procedures for different incident types (ransomware, data breach, insider threat). Deploy detection tools – SIEM, intrusion detection, file integrity monitoring. Maintain offline backups.

Part of the free Intro to Cyber course by Cover6 Solutions.