Do you have a Cyber Security Incident Response Plan?

"At my current company, I was intimately involved in the development of our Cyber Security Incident Response Plan. I was responsible for overseeing the planning strategy, as well as the operational and tactical execution of the Incident Response plan. As per our company policy, we followed the NIST - Computer Security Incident Handling Guide. Here's a breakdown of the structure of the plan that I helped develop:

1.) Detection and Analysis - Includes everything from monitoring potential attacks to looking for signs of an incident.
2.) Train staff on detection, containment, eradication, and recovery.
3.) Identifying the source of potential attacks
4.) Containment and recovery - This involves disabling network/systems access and installing security patches to resolve vulnerabilities.
5.) Assess the damage."

"It was important for me to be part of the containment and incident response team since I was directly involved in the creation of this team and plan. One of the many things that I took part in was examining past incident reports and lessons learned so that we could prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. I also reviewed and updated alert levels and investigated where possible single points of failure could happen. I wrote a service restoration document that included two critical steps:

1.) Perform a network/systems health check for validation to confirm that all systems are operational.
2.) Assess the damage and severity to determine the cause of the incident."

Give some thought as to how you would respond to this question. We suggest you give the interviewer some insight into how the plan was developed and if you had any involvement or input in putting the plan together. This tells the interviewer that you were an instrumental part of the planning process from planning to executing this plan. Make sure to include a description of what parts of the plan you are responsible for if an incident occurs.