Chapter 10, Problem 5E

Program Plan Intro

Incident Response (IR):

Incident response is an organized method used to address and handle the outcome of a security breach or cyber-attack. It is also known as computer incident, security incident and IT incident.

Incident Response Plan (IRP):

An incident response plan is a set of instructions that supports the IT staff to detect, respond and recover from network security incidents. These types of plans address issues like cybercrime, data loss and service outages.

Program Plan Intro

Contingency Planning:

• A Contingency Planning (CP) is a course of action planned to support an organization to respond efficiently for a significant future situation that may or may not happen.
• It is referred as “plan B” because it can be also used as an alternative for action if estimated outputs fail to occur.