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Lessons-learned meeting

Definition

A structured post-incident review, recommended by NIST within approximately two weeks of incident resolution, that examines what happened, what the response did well, what it missed, and what should change. The meeting's outputs update detection rules, playbooks, and the IR plan itself.

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