Incident Response: Building an Effective SOC Playbook
Incident Response: Building an Effective SOC Playbook A SOC playbook is a living guide that helps teams detect, decide, and act during cyber incidents. It reduces response time, clarifies roles, and keeps stakeholders aligned when pressure rises. A well-crafted playbook centers on practical steps rather than theory, so responders can move quickly and confidently. A good playbook centers on five phases: Detect, Decide, Act, Recover, and Learn. Each phase defines who does what, how to escalate, and what evidence to collect. Start with clear on-call duties, then add triage criteria and bite-size runbooks for the most likely risks. ...