What is the recovery phase of incident response?
- A.Identifying the attacker's entry point, collecting forensic images, interviewing the personnel involved, and reporting the timeline of events to the acquiring bank and the card brands
- B.Restoring affected systems to normal operation, verifying system integrity, and confirming that the vulnerability exploited has been addressed before returning systems to production
- C.Containing the affected hosts, blocking attacker addresses, disabling compromised accounts, and notifying the card brands
- D.Reviewing the incident with the response team, recording lessons learned, updating the plan, and scheduling the next exercise
Why B is correct
Recovery restores systems to normal operation with verified integrity and confirmed vulnerability remediation before returning to production use.
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