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Incident response and careers
Respond to incidents and grow in network security.
📖 Key ideas
- Incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, learn.
- Preserve logs and evidence.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders; report under CERT-In rules in India.
- Practise with labs: TryHackMe, Hack The Box, Cisco Packet Tracer.
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+, CCNA Security/CyberOps, CEH.
💡 Real-life example: Incident response is a fire drill: practise before the fire so everyone knows their role.
ContainmentStopping an incident from spreading
EradicationRemoving the threat
CERT-InIndia's cyber emergency response team
Security+Entry-level security certification