What must be implemented to respond to alerts generated by the change-detection solution?

What must be implemented to respond to alerts generated by the change-detection solution?

• A. Ignore alerts
• B. Outsource all alerts
• C. A process to respond to alerts
• D. Only monitor alerts

Answer: (C)

Change-detection tools only alert you to what changed; to actually reduce risk, you need a defined way to act on those alerts. Implementing a process to respond to alerts means having an incident/response workflow that guides how alerts are triaged, who investigates, what steps are taken to contain or remediate the change, how the change is verified as authorized or corrective, and how actions are documented and closed. Without this, alerts become noise and nothing is mitigated. Ignoring alerts or only monitoring them leaves gaps in protection, and outsourcing all alerts isn’t the requirement—the essential piece is the structured process for responding to and handling those alerts.

Change-detection tools only alert you to what changed; to actually reduce risk, you need a defined way to act on those alerts. Implementing a process to respond to alerts means having an incident/response workflow that guides how alerts are triaged, who investigates, what steps are taken to contain or remediate the change, how the change is verified as authorized or corrective, and how actions are documented and closed. Without this, alerts become noise and nothing is mitigated. Ignoring alerts or only monitoring them leaves gaps in protection, and outsourcing all alerts isn’t the requirement—the essential piece is the structured process for responding to and handling those alerts.