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Recovery

Recovery in cybersecurity incident response refers to the process of restoring systems, data, and services to their normal or improved operational state after a cyberattack. This phase ensures that the organization can resume its business functions efficiently and securely.

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TECHNICAL DEFINITION

Recovery is a critical incident response phase focused on restoring affected systems, services, and data to an operational state, often pre-incident or an enhanced, more resilient posture, following successful eradication and remediation of a cyber incident, thereby ensuring business continuity and operational resumption.

BACKGROUND

Computer security is a subdiscipline within the field of information security. It focuses on protecting computer software, systems, and networks from threats that can lead to unauthorized information disclosure, theft, or damage to hardware, software, or data, as well as to the disruption or misdirection of the services they provide.

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SYNONYMS & ALIASES

  • Restoration
  • System Recovery
  • Data Restoration
  • Operational Resumption
  • Business Resumption
  • Reconstruction

USAGE NOTE

This phase is crucial after containment and eradication, ensuring long-term stability and resilience against future incidents.

DEVELOPERS

Organizations developing technology related to Recovery.

  • Rubrik

    Rubrik specializes in data security and data recovery, offering solutions to protect against ransomware and other cyber threats, ensuring business continuity and rapid recovery of critical data.

  • Cohesity

    Cohesity provides a data management platform that consolidates backup, disaster recovery, and data security, enabling organizations to rapidly recover data and operations after a cyberattack.

  • Veeam

    Veeam is a leader in backup, recovery, and data management solutions for modern IT, crucial for ensuring business continuity and quick recovery from cyber incidents across cloud, virtual, and physical environments.

  • Zerto (an HPE company)

    Zerto offers an IT Resilience Platform for disaster recovery, data protection, and workload mobility, providing continuous data protection and rapid recovery for critical applications and data.

  • Mandiant (part of Google Cloud)

    Mandiant is renowned for its incident response services, helping organizations investigate, contain, and recover from sophisticated cyber breaches, providing expertise in post-attack remediation.

  • IBM Security

    IBM Security offers a broad portfolio of security services and products, including cyber resilience, incident response, and disaster recovery solutions to help enterprises plan for, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks.

  • Dell Technologies

    Through its various divisions (e.g., Dell EMC), Dell Technologies provides comprehensive data protection, backup, and recovery solutions, including cyber recovery vaults, essential for restoring operations after a cyber event.

  • Arctic Wolf

    Arctic Wolf delivers security operations solutions, including managed detection and response (MDR) services, which are critical in identifying threats early and guiding organizations through the recovery process after a breach.

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