A Company Recently Experienced a Security Breach

question 667

Multiple Choice

A company recently experienced a security breach. The security staff determined that the intrusion was due to an out-of-date proprietary software program running on a non-compliant server. The server was imaged and copied onto a hardened VM, with the previous connections re-established. Which of the following is the NEXT step in the incident response process?

• A) Recovery
• B) Eradication
• C) Lessons learned
• D) Containment
• E) Identification

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