Which of the following is MOST important for an IS auditor to review when evaluating the effectiveness of an organization's incident response process?
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When evaluating the effectiveness of an organization's incident response process, an IS auditor should review several factors, including past incident response actions, incident response staff experience and qualifications, results from management testing of incident response procedures, and incident response roles and responsibilities. However, of these options, the MOST important factor to review would be:
C. Results from management testing of incident response procedures
The reason why results from management testing of incident response procedures are the most important factor to review is that they provide a direct assessment of the effectiveness of the organization's incident response process. Management testing involves simulating various types of incidents and evaluating how well the organization's incident response process handles them. By reviewing the results of this testing, an IS auditor can determine whether the organization's incident response process is effective, identify areas for improvement, and make recommendations for changes to the process.
While past incident response actions, incident response staff experience and qualifications, and incident response roles and responsibilities are also important factors to review, they are not as directly indicative of the effectiveness of the incident response process as the results of management testing. For example, an organization may have experienced few incidents in the past, but that does not necessarily mean that its incident response process is effective. Similarly, while having qualified and experienced incident response staff is important, it does not necessarily mean that the incident response process is effective if the process itself is poorly designed or executed. Finally, while defining clear incident response roles and responsibilities is important, it does not necessarily mean that the process is effective if the roles and responsibilities are not followed or do not align with the organization's needs.
Therefore, while all of these factors are important for evaluating the effectiveness of an organization's incident response process, the most important factor for an IS auditor to review is the results from management testing of incident response procedures.