An organization's email account was compromised by a bad actor. Given the following information: Which of the following is the length of time the team took to detect the threat?

The correct answer is B. 40 minutes. The threat was detected from the time the emails were sent at 8:30 a.m. to when the recipients started alerting the organization's help desk about the email at 8:45 a.m., taking a total of 15 minutes. The detection time is the time elapsed between the occurrence of an incident…

Submitted by fatema_kw· Mar 6, 2026Incident Response and Management

Question

An organization's email account was compromised by a bad actor. Given the following information:

Which of the following is the length of time the team took to detect the threat?

Exhibit

Options

A25 minutes
B40 minutes
C45 minutes
D2 hours

How the community answered

(26 responses)

A
4% (1)
B
69% (18)
C
12% (3)
D
15% (4)

Explanation

The threat was detected from the time the emails were sent at 8:30 a.m. to when the recipients started alerting the organization's help desk about the email at 8:45 a.m., taking a total of 15 minutes. The detection time is the time elapsed between the occurrence of an incident and its discovery by the security team . The other options are either too short or too long based on the given information.

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#Incident detection#time metrics#log analysis

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