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Incident Recovery Track
Recover from incidents and prevent future occurrences - for when things go wrong
120
Minutes
5
Milestones
12
Total Steps
7
Required
Track Objectives
- Resolve immediate incident and restore service
- Understand root cause of incident
- Implement preventive measures
- Learn from incident to prevent recurrence
1
Immediate Response
Stop the bleeding and restore service
2
Stabilize
Get to a working state
3
Root Cause Analysis
Understand why it happened
4
Prevent Recurrence
Fix the underlying issues
Step 1 surface
Threat Modeling
If security incident: identify threat category and broader implications
15 min
Step 2 surface
Security Testing
If security incident: add tests to catch similar issues
10 min
Step 3 surface
Unit Integration Testing
Add regression tests to prevent this specific issue
10 min
Step 4 surface
Patch Management
If caused by outdated dependencies: establish patching process
12 min
5
Learn and Improve
Extract lessons and improve processes
What's Next
- � Implement all action items from post-mortem
- � Consider Production Ready track for operational maturity
- � Consider Security Hardening track if security incident
- � Schedule quarterly disaster recovery drills
- � Review and update runbooks based on learnings