From the course: Complete Guide to Cybersecurity: A Practical Approach

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Understanding incident response

Understanding incident response

- [Lecturer] Let's go over the fundamentals of incident response. And to get started, I want to go over a lot of different terms that are used to describe different types of elements in incident response and in cybersecurity. And in order for me to go over these terms, I want to introduce you with several online resources that I strongly recommend for you to become familiar with, and also organizations that are tasked to create these resources, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology, ISO, you know, different ISO standards that I'm going to go over, and, of course, RFCs from the ITF and so on. But to get started, I would like to go over a few more details about NIST. NIST typically produce different documents, we call them Special Publications. And the one that you have in front of you is a Special Publication 800-61 Revision 2, which is a Computer Security Incident Handling Guide. And this is a series of best practices and also an introductory material for people…

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