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Curriculum/Cybersecurity/NIST Cybersecurity Framework/Recover
30 minIntermediate

Recover

After this lesson, you will be able to: Apply Recover: recovery planning, lessons learned, communications.

Recover is the bridge from incident back to operation, with lessons baked in. It overlaps with BCP/DRP but adds the post-incident learning loop.

Prerequisites:Respond

Recover categories

Recovery Planning (RC.RP), plan documented, tested. Improvements (RC.IM), lessons captured, plan updated. Communications (RC.CO), public messaging, customer trust rebuilding.

💡 Don't skip the retro

Blameless post-mortems within 7 days of incident closure. Action items with owners and dates. Track to closure.

Recovery sequence

  1. 1

    1. Restore from clean backups (verify integrity).

  2. 2

    2. Rebuild from gold images for compromised systems.

  3. 3

    3. Force credential rotation (broad, assume worst).

  4. 4

    4. Validate normal operation.

  5. 5

    5. Public communications (apology, transparency).

  6. 6

    6. Lessons learned + plan updates.

Trust rebuilding

After breach, customer trust is the long recovery. Public transparency reports, security audits, certifications (SOC 2 Type 2) all help. Concealment usually backfires.

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