Eradication

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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When containment measures have been deployed after an incident occurs, the root cause of the incident must be identified and removed from the network. Scope Note: Eradication methods include: restoring backups to achieve a clean state of the system, removing the root cause, improving defenses and performing vulnerability analysis to find further potential damage from the same root cause.

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§1: When containment measures have been deployed after an incident occurs, the root cause of the incident must be identified and removed from the network. Scope Note: Eradication methods include: restoring backups to achieve a clean state of the system, removing the root cause, improving defenses and performing vulnerability analysis to find further potential damage from the same root cause.