Approving the plan
Once the plan is ready to execute, it must be approved. The approving panel should include feedback from all stakeholders, as it will be the last time to provide feedback and establish expectations prior to the hunt. The final approver will be the stakeholders who are granting the overall authorization for the hunt.
This plan approval will need to cover, at a minimum, the following:
- The stakeholders and the roles
- The restraints and the constraints
- The assumptions
- The team location and operating hours
- The scope (time and target systems)
- The deviation plan
- The communication contracts
- The trigger events
- The evidence of a stress test
With these items documented and formally approved by the appropriate stakeholders who can grant authorization for the hunt, the main planning phase is complete. The goal should always be to have a plan that is plainly documented and outlined so that a new stakeholder that arrives late to...
