During security monitoring of an enterprise cloud environment, an automated alert flags an unauthorized microservice container actively establishing encrypted outbound connections to an external command-and-control (C2) server. Security analysts verify that the container is compromised and holds active database connection tokens. According to standard incident response frameworks, which of the following actions should the security team perform FIRST?
- Apply network isolation rules to contain the compromised container and prevent lateral movement or data exfiltration.Cevap
- BTerminate and purge the compromised container instance immediately from the cluster host.
- CRedeploy the microservice using updated container base images from the CI/CD pipeline.
- DConvene a post-incident lessons learned review with the DevOps team to update infrastructure-as-code security policies.
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Apply network isolation rules to contain the compromised container and prevent lateral movement or data exfiltration.
The correct action is to apply network isolation rules to contain the compromised container. Under standard incident response frameworks (NIST SP 800-61 / ISO 27035), once an incident is verified during detection and analysis, the immediate next step is containment to restrict attacker access, halt active exfiltration, and prevent lateral movement within the network.
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Incident Response Lifecycle Phase Order (Containment First)