From the course: CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) Cert Prep: 6 Incident Response

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Mitigation

Mitigation

- [Instructor] As the full incident response team assembles, they move from the isolation and quarantine strategy used by first responders into a full incident mitigation mode. The goal of this mitigation phase is controlling the damage and loss caused to the organization by performing a full range of incident containment activities. The nature of those activities will vary based upon the severity of the incident. The National Institute for Standards and Technology suggests six criteria that responders may use when evaluating a potential containment strategy. First, responders should consider the potential for damage and theft of resources during the incident. Second, they should evaluate the need for evidence preservation and the effect that the strategy might have on the ability to preserve evidence. Third responders should evaluate service availability requirements and the impact of different containment strategies…

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