Following the containment of a data breach, a root cause analysis has identified the specific vulnerabilities that were exploited. What is the most important next step to prevent a recurrence of this incident?
Notify stakeholders of the data breach and the findings of the analysis.
Increase monitoring of network activities to detect future anomalies.
Implement security measures to correct the identified vulnerabilities.
Conduct a full security audit of all systems to identify other potential issues.
Implementing security measures to correct the identified vulnerabilities is the core of the remediation phase and is essential for preventing future incidents. This directly addresses the root cause. While notifying stakeholders and reporting are crucial parts of the overall incident response process, they do not fix the technical cause of the breach. Likewise, increasing monitoring is a valuable detection and verification activity but does not remediate the known vulnerability. Conducting a broader audit might be part of the 'lessons learned' phase but does not address the immediate need to fix the exploited weakness.
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