Incident Response Plan

Running head: INCIDENT RESPONSE PLAN
Incident Response Plan
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Purpose and Scope:......................................................................................................................2
Types of incidents:...........................................................................................................................2
Incident Response Plan:...................................................................................................................3
Role of the IRP:...........................................................................................................................3
Steps taken in IRP:.......................................................................................................................4
Benefits:.......................................................................................................................................5
Constraints:..................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................6
References:......................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction:
The Pixelated Pony Corporation has recently discovered the importance of the cyber
security in the organization and wants to the secure their server from the hackers. As the
authorities are well aware of the fact that the computers in the company are not well secured,
they decided to check upon the incident response plan for the cyber attack. The assignment
discusses the purpose, benefits and constraints of the incident response plan along with the steps
taken in the IRP (Thompson, 2018).
Purpose and Scope:
Purpose: The IRP or the Incident Response Plan is implemented in the organization to
ensure that the organization is prepared to handle any situation where cyber security threats are
observed. Nowadays technologies are advanced and so are the deeds of the hackers, hence,
incident response plan may assist in detect the area of effectiveness and ineffectiveness and
detect the attack to prevent it from occurring again. The PPC Company here has arranged for an
IRP to prevent these mishaps from happening in the organization due to less security in the
server.
Scope: The scope of the assignment is to provide an idea of the Incident Response Plan in
the organization, such that the security of the company can be ensured with its proper
implementation.
Types of incidents:
In an organization with poor cyber security, there are certain incidents that can occur
frequently (Chilcott et al., 2019). Some of the types of the incident that may occur in PPC are
given below: