Selective Reading Guide

Full-book reading is not required. Use NIST SP 800-61 for incident structure, MITRE ATT&CK for behavior vocabulary, NIST CSF for outcome framing, and Building Secure and Reliable Systems for system and response design.

Required evidence

Submit threat-linked rules, validated telemetry, replay and noise results, evidence provenance, timeline, decision log, containment and recovery proof, architecture correction, independent finding disposition, and residual risk. Protect sensitive incident data.

Oral defense

Triage one ambiguous signal, distinguish evidence from inference, demonstrate containment and trusted recovery, and defend the architecture or executive risk decision.

Source backbone

Use NIST SP 800-61, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, and Building Secure and Reliable Systems.