To ensure minimal business disruption, CISOs must have the right incident recovery strategies, roles, and processes in place. Security experts share tips on assembling your playbook.

When a company experiences a major IT systems outage — such as from a cybersecurity incident — it’s essentially out of business for however long the downtime lasts. That’s why having an effective incident response (IR) plan is vital.

It’s not just a matter of finding the source of an attack and containing it, though. Enterprises need to design for resilience to be able to continue operating even as key systems become unavailable.

What goes into an effective incident response plan? Here are some suggestions of essential components.

Perform impact analysis to ensure business resiliency and continuity

When a security breach brings down key systems, companies need to have a solid IT resiliency or business continuity (BC) plan in place. If the business is down for even a few hours that could lead to big financial losses and negative public relations.

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“One of the key components of the development of a business continuity plan is to understand the essential functions your organization performs, and what the impacts would be if they were disrupted,” says Justin Kates, senior business continuity advisor for convenience store operator Wawa, who is responsible for architecting a new BC program for Wawa’s expanding footprint of more than 1,000 stores across 10 states.

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Source : https://www.csoonline.com/article/3829684/how-to-create-an-effective-incident-response-plan.html