An organization has contained a data breach and completed system recovery. The incident response lead schedules a meeting to perform a formal root cause analysis. Which outcome represents the primary objective of this post-incident activity?
Implementing quick fixes to systems
Determining the underlying reasons why the incident happened
Improving overall security posture for future threats
Root cause analysis focuses on tracing an incident back to the specific conditions and actions that allowed it to occur. By pinpointing these underlying reasons, the organization can implement targeted controls that eliminate or mitigate those causes and thereby reduce the likelihood of similar incidents. While improving security posture, assessing damage, and applying quick fixes are valuable tasks during incident response, they are either broader outcomes or short-term actions-not the central goal of root cause analysis.
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