Episode 16 — Drive Eradication and Recovery With Verification, Monitoring, and Closure Criteria
This episode covers eradication and recovery as disciplined phases that restore trustworthy operations, not merely “getting systems back online,” and it emphasizes exam-relevant concepts like verification, monitoring, and closure criteria. You will learn how to remove the root cause by eliminating attacker tooling, persistence, and access paths, including credential resets, patching, configuration correction, and rebuilding compromised assets when necessary. We explain how recovery must be verified through logging and monitoring so the organization does not declare victory while compromise remains, and how to define closure criteria that require evidence, not optimism. Practical examples include managing dependencies so secret rotation does not break services, choosing staged restoration to limit reinfection, and deciding what post-recovery monitoring is needed based on the attacker’s tactics. The episode also highlights pitfalls such as restoring from backups that reintroduce compromise, skipping verification due to schedule pressure, or failing to document actions in a way that supports later lessons learned. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
