Awesome Incident Response

URL: https://github.com/meirwah/awesome-incident-response#readme
Category: Themed Directories
Tags: awesome-lists, security, incident-response
Platform: GitHub repository

Overview

Awesome Incident Response is a curated directory of tools, playbooks, and learning resources for security incident response. It is designed to support security analysts and DFIR (Digital Forensics and Incident Response) teams in handling, investigating, and learning from security incidents.

Features

• Curated incident response directory

  • Consolidated list of tools, resources, and references focused on security incident response and DFIR.
  • Aims to help with evidence gathering, investigation, remediation, and prevention.

• IR Tools Collection by category

  • Adversary Emulation: Resources and tools for simulating attacker behaviors to test and improve incident response.
  • All-In-One Tools: Suites that combine multiple DFIR/IR capabilities in a single toolkit.
  • Disk Image Creation Tools: Utilities for creating forensic disk images for later analysis.
  • Evidence Collection: Tools and commands (e.g., dd, .vmdk) for acquiring and preserving digital evidence.
  • Incident Management: Tools to help track, manage, and coordinate incident response activities.
  • Knowledge Bases: References and structured knowledge sources to guide investigations and decision-making.
  • Linux Distributions: Specialized DFIR and security-focused Linux distributions.
  • Linux Evidence Collection: Tools and techniques specifically for gathering evidence on Linux systems.
  • Log Analysis Tools: Utilities to parse, analyze, and correlate logs during incident investigations.
  • Memory Analysis Tools: Frameworks and software for analyzing memory dumps to detect malicious activity.
  • Memory Imaging Tools: Tools dedicated to capturing system memory forensically.
  • OSX Evidence Collection: Resources for collecting forensic evidence on macOS systems.
  • Other Tools: Miscellaneous utilities that assist with incident response and DFIR workflows.
  • Process Dump Tools: Tools for dumping and inspecting running processes, often used in malware analysis.
  • Sandboxing/Reversing Tools: Environments and utilities for dynamic analysis and reverse engineering of suspicious artifacts.
  • Scanner Tools: Scanners for identifying vulnerabilities, malware, or indicators of compromise.
  • Timeline Tools: Utilities to build and analyze event timelines from multiple data sources.
  • Windows Evidence Collection: Tools and procedures for acquiring evidence from Windows systems.

• Learning and reference resources

  • Books: Recommended reading on incident response, DFIR, and related security topics.
  • Communities: Links to community groups, forums, or networks for practitioners.
  • Playbooks: Incident response playbooks and procedures for common scenarios.
  • Videos: Talks, tutorials, and recorded sessions on IR and DFIR.
  • Other Lists: Pointers to additional curated lists and related awesome collections.

• Multilingual documentation

  • Includes a primary README and an additional README_ch.md (Chinese) for broader accessibility.

• Open source and community-driven

  • Public GitHub repository with a clear LICENSE file.
  • contributing.md provides guidelines for community contributions.
  • Automated workflow to check URLs for link health.

Use Cases

• Building or improving an organization’s incident response toolkit and workflow.
• Onboarding or training DFIR and security analysts with structured reading and practice materials.
• Quickly discovering tools for specific tasks (e.g., memory imaging, log analysis, adversary emulation).
• Referencing playbooks and knowledge bases during active incident investigations.

Pricing

• The directory itself is a free, open GitHub repository.
• No paid plans or pricing tiers are indicated in the available content.

License

• Includes a LICENSE file in the repository; specific terms should be checked directly in the repo for details.