Operational Resilience: Turning Your IR Plan Into a Resilient Team
Huntress advisor outlines five NIST-aligned steps to turn incident response plans into tested operational resilience.
Ben Bernstein, Cybersecurity Advisor Manager at Huntress, describes building operational resilience around NIST's Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover functions. He argues the most common gap is assuming perimeter tools are sufficient, and urges regular tabletop and purple-team testing, scheduled plan audits, and tracking MTTD/MTTR metrics. The piece stresses that buying tools alone does not create resilience and that plans must be pressure-tested until they become muscle memory.
- Operational resilience mapped to NIST's five functions: identify, protect, detect, respond, recover
- Assume breach; invest in threat hunting and 24/7 monitoring to cut dwell time
- Test plans via tabletop and purple-team exercises on a fixed schedule
- Track MTTD and MTTR to measure resilience for stakeholders
From the original article
6 min read at huntress.comAn incident response plan only works if it’s tested. Learn the 5 pillars of operational resilience and how to turn your plan into muscle memory before an attack hits.
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