CASP+ (CAS-004) Domain 2: Risk Management and Incident Response

Domain Overview

This domain focuses on identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and recovering from risks and incidents in an enterprise environment. It ensures business continuity, minimizes downtime, and protects assets from threats and vulnerabilities.


What You Will Learn

Tip: Always align your risk mitigation strategies with business objectives and regulatory compliance.

🔍 Risk Identification and Analysis

Perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments. Understand threats, vulnerabilities, and impacts to prioritize mitigation efforts.

📜 Business Continuity Planning (BCP)

Develop plans to maintain operations during disruptive events, ensuring minimal downtime and continuity of critical services.

🛠️ Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

Design and implement recovery strategies for systems, applications, and data to restore operations after a disaster.

🚨 Incident Response

Build and execute incident response plans (IRPs) using frameworks like NIST SP 800-61. Focus on detection, containment, eradication, and recovery.

🌐 Threat Intelligence

Integrate internal and external threat feeds into your security operations to proactively identify and mitigate risks.

⚖️ Legal and Compliance Requirements

Understand GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, and PCI-DSS responsibilities related to incident reporting and data protection.


Key Topics Covered

📊 Risk Analysis Techniques

Master risk evaluation methods such as Risk Matrix, Risk Register, Asset Valuation, Exposure Factor, Single Loss Expectancy (SLE), and Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE).

🔄 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Design strategies including RTORecovery Time Objective: how quickly a system must be restored after disruption. and RPORecovery Point Objective: acceptable amount of data loss measured in time..

🕵️‍♂️ Incident Handling and Forensics

Prepare for detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned phases. Maintain chain of custody during evidence collection.

🌍 Threat Intelligence Integration

Utilize STIX/TAXII protocols and integrate feeds from ISACs, commercial vendors, and open-source communities.


Important Study Resources

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