Who typically participates in a remediation event?

Who typically participates in a remediation event?

• A. Groups outside the IR team
• B. External law enforcement
• C. Only IR team members
• D. Internal IT only

Answer: (A)

Remediation is a cross-functional activity that requires collaboration beyond the IR team. The incident response lead coordinates the effort, but implementing fixes, restoring services, and validating that the threat is removed depends on people who own the affected assets and run the systems. System owners and application teams grant access and approve changes; IT operations and change-management teams deploy patches, reconfigure controls, and verify that the environment is secure; security engineering may refine controls and monitoring; and legal/compliance or risk teams ensure any regulatory or policy obligations are met and communications are appropriate. External law enforcement isn’t typically involved in remediation unless there’s a criminal investigation. Limiting participation to the IR team or to internal IT only would miss critical expertise and authority needed to effectively fix the environment and prevent recurrence.

Remediation is a cross-functional activity that requires collaboration beyond the IR team. The incident response lead coordinates the effort, but implementing fixes, restoring services, and validating that the threat is removed depends on people who own the affected assets and run the systems. System owners and application teams grant access and approve changes; IT operations and change-management teams deploy patches, reconfigure controls, and verify that the environment is secure; security engineering may refine controls and monitoring; and legal/compliance or risk teams ensure any regulatory or policy obligations are met and communications are appropriate. External law enforcement isn’t typically involved in remediation unless there’s a criminal investigation. Limiting participation to the IR team or to internal IT only would miss critical expertise and authority needed to effectively fix the environment and prevent recurrence.