Does your organization scan restored assets for indicators of compromise and verify remediation of root causes before returning them to production use?

After a security incident, restored systems or data may still contain hidden malware, backdoors, or vulnerabilities that caused the original compromise.

This question assesses whether your organization performs security validation before reintroducing recovered assets into the production environment, which helps prevent reinfection and recurrence of the same incident.

For example, after restoring a server from backup following a ransomware attack, you should scan it for persistent malware and verify that the vulnerability that allowed initial access has been patched.

Evidence of fulfillment could include documented incident recovery procedures that specify post-restoration security checks, logs from vulnerability scanners or endpoint detection tools showing clean scans of restored assets, or change management records showing remediation actions taken before production deployment.