During a tabletop exercise, the security team reviews the company's incident-response playbooks. One participant asks why these documents are necessary when the overarching incident-response policy already exists. Which of the following BEST describes the primary purpose of an incident-response playbook?
To serve solely as introductory training material for new hires on the security team.
To automatically quarantine any endpoint that triggers an alert.
To define the organization's long-term security vision and risk appetite.
To provide step-by-step, pre-approved procedures for responding to a specific type of security incident.
An incident-response playbook converts policy into an actionable workflow: it lays out the exact, pre-approved steps responders should follow for a particular class of incident. This enables a rapid, consistent, and accountable response. Policies and strategies set direction, training materials teach concepts, and automated tools may assist containment, but none of those items provide the step-by-step guidance contained in a playbook.
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