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3 of 4|Incident Response
video 15 min•Incident Management
Recovery
Restoring normal operations safely.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- ▸ Understand the recovery phase
- ▸ Learn how to verify system integrity
Getting Back Online
Recovery means bringing the affected systems back into production. This requires careful testing to ensure the threat is eliminated.
- • Rebuild the system from scratch or a known good backup.
- • Apply the necessary security patches.
- • Change all passwords and credentials.
- • Conduct a vulnerability scan before going live.
- • Keep enhanced monitoring for at least 30 days.
📖 Glossary
- Recovery
- The process of restoring systems and data after an incident.
🔑 Key Takeaways
- Restore from a clean backup.
- Verify the vulnerability is patched.
- Monitor heavily after restoration.
📚 Further Reading
- Incident Response Best Practices — SANS Institute (2021)
Course Author
Shilpi Kulshrestha
Shilpi is a corporate lawyer with over a decade of experience in data protection, company law, and regulatory compliance. She has advised 50+ startups and enterprises on DPDPA readiness, privacy gover...