When an organization gets hacked, recovery is only part of the challenge. Security teams must quickly determine what happened, contain the threat, remove the attacker, and restore operations without allowing the incident to happen again. That work falls to incident responders, the cybersecurity professionals who investigate attacks, coordinate response efforts, and help organizations recover under pressure.

This beginner-friendly session introduces the role of the incident responder and explains how incident response works across the major stages of preparation, detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident improvement. Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of what incident responders do, why their work matters, and how structured response processes help organizations reduce damage and improve resilience after a cyber incident.