Incident response planning

Purpose

Preparatory activities, including documenting, training, and testing, are essential to identifying, containing, eradicating, and recovering from a security incident. It is important to act as if you a preparing for when an incident will occur, rather then if. Taking a proactive approach will help you return to normal activities as soon as possible.


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Initial considerations

Departmental and divisional incident response plans.

Follow security best practices.


What can I do?

Review and adopt the University incident response plan or use it to create your own.

Report suspected incidents.

  • If you suspect a security event or incident is taking place or has occurred, report it.


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