How to Build Operational Resilience Into Your Incident Response Plan
Summary
Huntress outlines a practical approach to operational resilience: inventory critical assets, keep response plans current, test backups and incident procedures, and track detection and response times.
Key points
- The article frames resilience around five NIST-aligned steps: identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover.
- Organizations should inventory physical and digital assets and prioritize the systems, data, and processes most critical to the business.
- Incident response plans should define roles, escalation paths, and communications with legal, insurers, employees, and customers.
- Plans can become outdated as staff, vendors, contact details, and attack surfaces change; the article recommends scheduled reviews.
- Tabletop exercises and red- or purple-team simulations help test whether procedures work before a real incident.
- Test backup restoration in practice and track mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) over time.
Article Details
- Topic
- Operational resilience and incident response planning, testing, and measurement.