Incident response huwa l-proċess ta' manigginajo ta' inċidenti ta' sigurtà (break-ins, attakki) — detezzjoni, kontenimintu, eliminazzjoni, irkupru, u tagħlim. Peress li break-ins jistgħu jseħħu malgħal ad-difesi, li jkollok planu biex tirrispondi effettivament huwa importanti biex tillimita d-ħsara.
Il-fażi ta' incident response
Despite defenses, security incidents WILL happen (no system is perfectly secure):
→ being PREPARED to respond limits damage, downtime, and data loss
→ a poor/slow/panicked response makes breaches far worse
→ have a PLAN before you need it (you can't improvise a good response mid-crisis).
Il-ċiklu ta' incident response
1. PREPARATION → plan, tools, roles, runbooks, monitoring/logging in place beforehand
2. DETECTION & ANALYSIS → identify the incident (monitoring, alerts); assess scope/severity
3. CONTAINMENT → stop the spread/limit damage (isolate affected systems, revoke access)
4. ERADICATION → remove the threat (close the vulnerability, remove malware/access)
5. RECOVERY → restore systems safely; verify they're clean; resume operations
6. POST-INCIDENT (lessons learned) → analyze what happened, improve defenses & the process
(BLAMELESS — focus on fixing, not blaming)
