Foundation glossary/Operations

Incident Response

Companion card for the Foundation course — study the related lesson for full progress.

Simple explanation

A calm plan when something goes wrong.

Technical explanation

Prepare → detect → contain → eradicate → recover → lessons.

Real-life scenario

Lost phone checklist: lock account, revoke sessions, call bank — personal IR.

Security relevance

Breaches are likely — response quality limits damage and legal exposure.

Practical example

Ransomware playbook with comms + restore.

IR lifecycle (simplified).

Mini quiz

Writing lessons learned after ransomware is part of:

Related lesson

No direct lesson slug yet — use the Foundation course syllabus or roadmap level incident-response.