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February 2025

Announcing the Incident Response Program Pack v1.5

Incident_response_process

This release is to provide you with everything you need to establish a functioning security incident response program at your company. 

In this pack, we cover

  • Definitions: This document introduces sample terminology and roles during an incident, the various stakeholders who may need to be involved in supporting an incident, and sample incident severity rankings.
  • Preparation Checklist: This checklist provides every step required to research, pilot, test, and roll out a functioning incident response program.
  • Runbook: This runbook outlines the process a security team can use to ensure the right steps are followed during an incident, in a consistent manner.
  • Process workflow: We provide a diagram outlining the steps to follow during an incident.
  • Document Templates: Usable templates for tracking an incident and performing postmortems after one has concluded.
  • Metrics: Starting metrics to measure an incident response program.

GitHub:
https://github.com/securitytemplates/sectemplates/tree/main/incident-response/v1

Updates: https://github.com/securitytemplates/sectemplates/blob/main/incident-response/v1/UPDATES.md

Licensing
This project utilizes a modified creative commons license.

About SecTemplates
To provide simplified, free, and usable open-source templates to enable engineering and smaller security teams to bootstrap security capabilities in their organizations.