The Computer Incident Response Planning Handbook: Executable Plans for Protecting Information at Risk

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Writing Your Computer Incident Response Plan

I’ve spent a fair amount of time discussing cyber-crime, due diligence, crisis, and planning. Now it’s time to pull up a chair and start writing your plan. As I explained earlier, Chapters 5 through 7 will review in detail a functioning data breach CIRP. Chapters 8 through 10 will do the same for a malware CIRP. In this chapter, you’ll learn about some fundamentals that will start you down the road of writing a good CIRP. I’ll provide examples for most of the topics discussed here in the chapters ...