Restoring OS and Applications

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Joe, the technician, is working on the recovery step of the incident response process. Incident response is a series of steps taken by an organization to identify, contain, eradicate, and recover from a security incident. The incident response process is a critical aspect of maintaining the security of an organization's information systems and data.

Recovery is the step in the incident response process where the IT team works to restore normal operations after an incident. In this case, Joe has already restored the operating system and applications on the workstation from the original media. This means that the system is now in a working state but the user's data files are not yet copied back onto the hard drive.

Once Joe has finished copying the user's files back onto the hard drive, the system will be fully recovered and can be returned to the user. It is important to note that recovery is not the final step in the incident response process. After the system is fully recovered, the IT team should conduct a post-incident review to identify the root cause of the incident and take steps to prevent similar incidents in the future.