QUICK DEFINITION
Incident Response — The coordinated process for detecting, containing, investigating and recovering from a security incident.
WHY IT MATTERS
Why Incident Response matters in finance
Fast, disciplined response can prevent a local compromise from becoming a systemic operational event.
FINANCIAL SYSTEM CONTEXT
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In financial services, incident response 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.