Chapter 3: The Incident Response Process
Now that you have reached this chapter, you should already have a good understanding of modern human-operated ransomware attacks, so you are ready to look at the incident response process. Of course, processes may be a bit boring to look at, but it's still very important to have solid understanding – it'll speed up your incident response!
What's more, rather than telling you the same story one more time, we will look at a classic incident response process, developed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), from a ransomware attack perspective and, of course, using real-world examples and experience.
It was introduced in Computer Security Incident Handling Guide by Paul Cichonski, Tom Millar, Tim Grance, and Karen Scarfone. Still, many incident response teams all around the globe are using it on a daily basis during their engagements. Again, I'm not going to retype this paper, rather share my...