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Incident Response Analyst

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Incident Response Analysts are the emergency responders of enterprise security — they contain, investigate, and eradicate active cyberattacks before attackers can achieve their objectives. In India, they operate inside dedicated IR teams at regulated BFSI organizations (HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, SBI), MSSPs running retainer-based IR services (Securonix India, Atos Paladion, Deloitte Cyber), and specialist IR consultancies engaged post-breach by CERT-In empanelled responders. Their work spans the full NIST IR lifecycle: detection triage from SIEM and EDR alerts, memory forensics and disk imaging on compromised endpoints, network traffic analysis to trace lateral movement, CERT-In breach notification within the mandatory 6-hour window, and DPDP Act 2023 obligations when personal data of Indian citizens is involved. Unlike SOC Analysts who work an alert queue on rotating shifts, IR Analysts own the end-to-end investigation lifecycle on confirmed incidents — from first triage through root-cause analysis, executive briefing, and post-incident hardening recommendations.