From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 7 Security Operations

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Incident response exercises

Incident response exercises

From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 7 Security Operations

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Incident response exercises

- [Instructor] Hopefully, you don't need to activate your incident response plan on a frequent basis. However, it's still important to keep the plan in front of team members, to provide them with the opportunity to keep their skills sharp. Let's talk about a few ways that you can exercise and test your incident response process. Read-throughs are the simplest form of incident response plan testing. They're also known as checklist reviews. In this approach, incident response team leaders distribute copies of the current plan to all personnel involved in incident response efforts and they ask them to review the procedures. Team members then provide feedback about any updates needed to keep the plan current. Walk-throughs go a step further, and involve getting everyone together to review the plan at the same time. For this reason, the walkthrough is also known as a tabletop exercise. Walk-throughs achieve the same result…

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