Incident Response

Announcing the incident response program pack 1.0

I'm pleased to announce our first release, the Incident Response Program Pack. The goal of 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.

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

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.