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Eradication

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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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ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary1 senseview framework →
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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.
Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
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the complete destruction of every trace of something
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
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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