QUICK DEFINITION
Incident Containment — Actions taken to limit the spread and impact of an active security incident.
WHY IT MATTERS
Why Incident Containment matters in finance
Containment protects unaffected systems while investigation and recovery proceed.
FINANCIAL SYSTEM CONTEXT
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In financial services, incident containment should be understood in relation to operational continuity, data integrity, payments, market infrastructure and interconnected dependencies. A control can be technically effective while still leaving material resilience risk if critical services cannot continue or recover during disruption.