What is the goal of incident recovery?

The goal of incident recovery is primarily focused on restoring operations after a breach. This process involves implementing strategies and processes to ensure that systems and services are brought back to normal functioning as quickly and effectively as possible following a security incident. Recovery efforts often include restoring data from backups, re-establishing service continuity, and ensuring that all affected systems are secure before bringing them back online.

While preventing future incidents, identifying vulnerabilities, and prosecuting offenders are important aspects of an overall incident management strategy, they are not the immediate focus of the recovery phase. Recovery is about getting back to business, mitigating downtime, and ensuring that necessary operations continue with minimal disruption after an incident has occurred.