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Learn MoreIn this article, we’ll explain the concept of an incident response playbook and the role it plays in an incident response plan and outline how you can create one. We’ll also touch on common use cases for incident response playbooks and provide examples of automated security playbooks. Read on to learn about incident response playbooks and how they can help you achieve a higher level of cybersecurity.
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An incident response plan is a documented, systematic process that defines how your organization should deal with a cybersecurity incident. There are two common frameworks you can use to create an incident response plan, the 6-Step SANS Incident Response Process and the 7-Step NIST Incident Response Process.
Both of these have the following steps in common. The incident response plan should define:
You must keep your incident response plan simple, to ensure staff can understand it and take the required actions under the extreme pressure of an actual cyberattack. To simplify the plan and ensure staff can take action quickly, many teams add incident security playbooks for specific incident scenarios.
A playbook can take two forms:
A manual playbook is a list of steps, which can easily be converted to an automated process or script. This is why incident response playbooks are a bridge between a traditional manual incident response process to an automated process.
An incident response playbook is made up of the following building blocks:
To create a playbook:
Here are a few scenarios for which you should consider building an incident response playbook, whether manual or automatic:
Here is how an automated security system can carry out an automated playbook to respond to specific incidents.
Anomalous Login Attempt
Trojan Malware
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