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Data recovery and extraction

Data recovery and extraction

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Data recovery and extraction

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- Data recovery and extraction are critical components of incident response, focusing on retrieving and securing data that's been lost, corrupted, or compromised during a cyber incident. These processes are essential for minimizing downtime, preserving evidence, and ensuring the integrity of data, especially during forensic investigations. The key objectives here are to restore operations, quickly recover critical data to minimize operational downtime and ensure business continuity or continuity of operations. Preserve evidence. Extract and protect data that might be needed for forensic investigations and incident reporting. Prevent further data loss. Make sure that the affected systems and files are restored without risking additional data corruption or data exposure. File-based recovery is a method that involves recovering individual files or folders or directories that have been deleted, corrupted, or locked, for example, by ransomware. These techniques include using backup systems…

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