¶ … threat has reached an advanced stage where workstations are now sending out Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to numerous known hackers' IP addresses. Therefore, the response team must respond in a steadfast fashion. This incident response plan will provide the most organized and well-defined approach for handling this threat and tracking the sources of the attack. This plan describes and identifies steps that will be taken to determine the cause, isolate and conduct damage control, eradicate, and recover from the cause of the incident as soon as possible. The incident response team will be charged with the responsibility of implementing this plan. Incident Response Team

An incident response team will offer a quick, orderly, and effective response to the improper disclosure of confidential information to hackers' IP addresses. In this case, the mission of the incident response team will be to prevent a serious loss of public confidence by giving and effective, skillful and immediate response to the unexpected event compromising computer information systems and databases. The incident response team will take proper steps required to contain, mitigate, and recover from the computer security incident. It is the responsibility of the team, to investigate the intrusion in a cost effective and timely manner and report the findings to the management and other relevant authorities (Kizza, 2009). The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)...

The response crew will subscribe to a number of industry security alert services to stay abreast of relevant vulnerabilities, threats and alerts from real incidents.
Incident Response Team Members

The following members comprise the incident response team:

Information Security Officer

Information Privacy Office

Information Technology Operations Manager

Network Architect

Operating System Architect

Business Applications Manager

Online Sales Manager

Internal Auditing Expert

Incident response steps

There are six steps of response:

Preparation -- it is important for the response team to know how to implement the incident response plan. The crew must know how to respond to the incident as it can save effort and time in the end.

Identification -- the CISO must confirm that an incident has occurred. Then, he can coordinate the response team to take immediate actions. CISO will engage forensic techniques including looking for gaps in logs, reviewing system logs and reviewing intrusion detection logs to establish the cause of the incident. Here, a few authorized team members will examine the evidence (McCarthy, 2012).

Containment -- it encompasses limiting the magnitude and the scope of the incident. Because this incident could involve a malicious code, the…