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A cyber defense incident timeline reflecting relative load of tasks that are supplanted over time by the first Incident Response Load (IRL1) and how the Collaborative Training and Response Team (CTRC) provided relief after variants reinfected the institution
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(full text avaiable at https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/16608 cc: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0) As society advances in terms of information technology, the dependency on cyber secure systems increases. Likewise, the need to enhance both the quality and relevance of education, training, and professional development for cybersecu...
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... Figure 8, the left side of the timeline represents normal operations for CDOT. When the incident occurs, incident response load (IRL) takes over the whole team's time, eventually minimizing the ability to do basic "Keep the Lights on" operations required to run the business. ...
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