Chapter 12: Dealing with Incident Response

As you go deeper into the field of cybersecurity, you will begin to see there are many specializations and paths a person can choose to pursue. While many think hacking is everything in cybersecurity, there are many more exciting paths, such as threat hunting, malware researcher, digital forensics, and incident response (IR). This chapter is designed to teach you about the need for and importance of IR within an organization.

Throughout this chapter, you will learn about the importance of and need to implement incident handling processes to prevent a threat from spreading on a network. You will learn about the various teams that are created to assist with incident handling for an organization and even a nation. Furthermore, you will gain the skills to perform both server and network profiling to determine whether a system could potentially be compromised, and lastly, you will learn about various compliance frameworks within the industry...