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Eradication

Threat Eradication

Definition

Eradication is the incident response phase where the root cause of a compromise is removed from the environment — including deleting malware, closing exploited vulnerabilities, removing attacker persistence mechanisms, and revoking compromised credentials. Eradication must be thorough before recovery begins; incomplete eradication leads to re-compromise.

It follows Containment and precedes Recovery in the NIST IR lifecycle.


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