Keep yourself ready for any security events. Create an incident management process as per your organizational policy requirements. Incident management can differ from one organization to another and from one application to another. For example, if your application is handling Personal Identifiable Information (PII) of your customers, you need a tighter security measure in your incident response. However, if the application is handling small amounts of sensitive data, such as an inventory management application, then it will have a different approach.

Make sure to simulate the incident response to see how your security team is recovering from the situation. Your team should use automation tools for speed of detection, investigation, and response to any security event. You need to set up the alert, monitor, and audit mechanisms to do Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to prevent such events occurring again.

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