Incident Response

Incident response procedures, forensics, threat hunting, and postmortems.

IR Lifecycle

PREPARE → DETECT → CONTAIN → ERADICATE → RECOVER → LESSONS LEARNED
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Sections

  • Playbooks — IR playbooks for common scenarios (AWS cred compromise, malware, phishing, K8s compromise, S3 public access)
  • Forensics — Memory dump, disk acquisition, log analysis, evidence preservation
  • Threat Hunting — Proactive hunting methodology and queries
  • Postmortem — Blameless incident reviews and templates

Key Playbooks

ScenarioPriorityAutomation Target
AWS compromised credentialsCriticaln8n: block IP + rotate creds
Malware on endpointCriticaln8n: isolate + alert
Phishing link clickedHighn8n: reset creds + scan endpoint
Data exfiltrationCriticaln8n: block + notify
K8s cluster compromiseCriticaln8n: isolate namespace

Your n8n + Planio Integration

Your existing n8n + Planio setup maps to IR:

Alert → n8n webhook → workflow → Planio ticket
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                   Slack notification
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                   Auto-remediation (block IP, isolate)