Incident Response Glossary Definition

Term Incident Response
Definition

Incident Response is the organized set of actions used to prepare for, detect, analyze, contain, eradicate, and recover from security incidents.

Incident Response is a DevOps operations and reliability concept used to observe service behavior, respond to failures, and improve resilience over time.

Context & Usage

Incident Response is part of security operations and incident response, helping teams detect activity, preserve evidence, coordinate response, and improve controls after an event.

Site Reliability Engineering and operations teams use this concept to measure service health, investigate incidents, and turn operational learning into improvement.

Related concepts include DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering and Observability.

Additional Resource: Google Site Reliability Engineering Book.

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