What is an Incident Response Plan? | UpGuard

This document provides an overview of incident response planning, explaining its importance, the roles within a CSIRT and cross-functional stakeholders, common security incidents including third-party/vendor risks, and tools across prevention, detection, and response; it compares the NIST and SANS incident response frameworks, outlines essential plan components and performance metrics, differentiates incident response from business continuity planning, and briefly highlights UpGuard offerings for breach risk and vendor risk monitoring.