Disaster Recovery: A Review of Incident Response Plan Templates

This report examines the usefulness of incident response templates for organizations creating a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). It highlights the increasing need for such templates due to the rise in cyber threats and the adoption of internet-based technologies. The selected template from IBM and others is evaluated based on its ability to help organizations identify and respond to security incidents effectively, aligning with the SANS Institute's six steps of incident response. The report emphasizes the importance of having a well-defined incident response plan to mitigate security breaches and ensure business continuity, referencing several resources that provide customizable templates to suit varying organizational needs. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a variety of study tools and resources for students.

Running head: DISASTER RECOVERY
Disaster Recovery
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1DISASTER RECOVERY
Top 5 Incident Response Template found
https://www.ibm.com/in-en/marketplace/resilient-incident-response-platform
https://searchdisasterrecovery.techtarget.com/Free-incident-response-plan-template-for-
disaster-recovery-planners
https://www.exabeam.com/incident-response/incident-response-plan/
https://www.iltanet.org/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?
DocumentFileKey=966e76a0-5664-43b6-9f3e-fa0540055508&ssopc=1
https://www.incidentresponse.com/resources/policies-plans/
Usefulness of Incident Response Template for an organization creating a CSIRT
(Computer Security Incident Response Team)
Given the latest trends in the cyber world, the way that it is shaping up the business
scenario is making more and more industries in adopting the utility of the internet. From
cyber environments to cloud infrastructure, every organization is taking up the benefits that
cyber world has to offer to the business industries (Schreck, 2018). However, there are also
various security issues that most organizations do not acknowledge and the security breaches
occur without being noticed. Therefore, an Incident Response Template helps an organization
to identify any suspicious incident that supports the staff to respond to the security incident
and provide appropriate measures for the same.
This particular link that has been selected from over numerous others during a search
procedure through the Google search engine entering the keywords, “Incident Response
Template” is selected due to its appropriateness (Sando et al., 2018). The way that the
template solidifies all the aspects through which an employee in an organization would

2DISASTER RECOVERY
feasibly solve all the aspects of an Incident Response Plan is seamlessly described in this
particular website. It considers the key considerations required for the Incident Response
Planning, the 6 steps of Incident Response as approved by the SANS institute. The website
also supports various templates for Incident Response stating the contents and the page
numbers consisting in the entire template plan. This would make it easier for organizations to
choose amongst various available options according to the organizational needs.

3DISASTER RECOVERY
References
Sando, T., Alluri, P., Chuan, C., Haule, H., Kitali, A., Lentz, R., & Huq, A. (2018).
Evaluation of Incident Response Improvements for Statewide Application: Learning
from the New Regional Traffic Management Center in Jacksonville, Florida.
Schreck, T. (2018). IT Security Incident Response: Current State, Emerging Problems, and
New Approaches.