Measuring incident management maturity

- [Instructor] The effort put into preparing for an incident … will pay for itself many times over … through a timely and effective response … which contains the damage. … Preparation involves establishing and training … an incident response team, … establishing and exercising processes, … and acquiring the necessary tools and resources. … Once a basic program is up and running, … it's useful to carry out a baseline survey … or maturity assessment of incident response preparedness. … CREST UK has developed an incident response … maturity assessment tool, which is free to download and use. … This is a spreadsheet based tool, … which contains over 600 questions … across the three stages of incident management, … which can be used to assess an organizations readiness … to respond to a cyber attack. … A summary version of the tool, … with just a handful of higher level questions, … is also available for download from the website shown here. … Another early task for the incident response team …