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Preparation is a proactive phase conducted before any incident occurs and involves building policies, response teams, communication plans, and tooling.

Eradication involves removing malware, revoking attacker access, and patching exploited vulnerabilities after the threat has already been contained.

Incident recording and assignment covers logging the initial incident report and routing it to the appropriate response team - not performing detailed technical analysis of attack characteristics and impact.

The incident triage phase involves systematically analyzing a confirmed incident to characterize it - determining the attack type, severity rating, affected targets, organizational impact, propagation method, and which vulnerabilities were exploited - exactly the activities Robert performed on the compromised device. Triage provides the technical understanding required before containment or eradication can begin. This phase follows initial recording and assignment and focuses on deep technical investigation of the incident.