Having a concise incident response plan is paramount for an organization with any IT technologies involved in the business processes. Such a document must include potential cyber threats for which a company must prepare, ways to detect and contain them, as well as ensure that exploits that led to their occurrence will be eliminated. Damage done by an attack must be repaired and losses accurately measured. Responsibility for this process must be outlined within the document alongside each step for clarity and orderliness of its execution.
A report regarding a cyberattack must be generated and shared with interested parties for clarity and further improvements to security measures, as this information can reveal previously undetected risk factors in a network. At last, a completed incident response plan must be run at least once to assess its practical application. After its finalization, a company must not forget to update its plan with the data from the most recent practices available to it, including experience coming from attacks targeting its network system.