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Post‐Attack Hygiene: Lessons, Orphans & Recovery Pitfalls
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Persistent Perspective: Backdoors Left Behind in Cleanup
After an incident, some intrusions survive via lingering agents, dormant accounts, or hidden scripts.
Log Integrity After the Fact
Archiving logs without chain-of-trust (hash, signatures) allows attackers to modify or delete traces.
Configuration Drift During Recovery Phases
Temporary firewall/ACL relaxations made to reestablish connectivity often remain too long—become permanent.
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Orphaned Accounts Created During Incident
Users, emergency accounts, vendor accounts or service accounts created during recovery often remain active.
Communication vs. Action Misalignment
Public or internal statements committing to “full remediation” often outpace what teams can realistically audit or fix.
Lessons Not Captured, Mistakes Repeat
Without structured post‑mortem frameworks, teams forget what went wrong and repeat it in the next breach.
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