You work for a large organization. You notice that you have access to confidential information that you should not be able to access in your position. You report this security incident to the helpdesk. The incident cycle isinitiated. What are the stages of the security incident cycle?

A.
Threat, Damage, Incident, Recovery

B.
Threat, Damage, Recovery, Incident

C.
Threat, Incident, Damage, Recovery

D.
Threat, Recovery, Incident, Damage

Explanation:
The incident cycle has the following stages: threat, incident, damage and recovery.
Security measures are aimed at a certain moment in the incident cycle. The measures are intended to prevent incidents (preventive) or reduce the threats (reductive), detect incidents (detective), respond to incidents, stop threats (repressive) and to correct damage (corrective).
The measures are taken in order to ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of company information.