Why Root Cause Analysis Deserves a Permanent Place in Your Firm’s Incident Response Plan

That question is the entire purpose of root cause analysis (RCA). Incident Response and Root Cause Analysis Are Not the Same ThingIncident response is what happens in the moment: contain the threat, restore access, get the team back to work. That’s what root cause analysis is for. Confirm the firm’s written incident response plan includes session token revocation, not just password resets, as a standard containment step. Root cause analysis is a structured follow-up — typically a short written summary or review call — that happens once the immediate threat is handled.