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The goal of the eradication phase in incident response is primarily focused on cleaning the compromised system. During this phase, the emphasis is on identifying and removing any malicious artifacts or vulnerabilities that enabled the incident to occur in the first place. This includes eradicating malware, closing vulnerabilities, changing compromised credentials, and ensuring that residual effects of the incident are eliminated to prevent recurrence.

By thoroughly cleaning the system, organizations can ensure that they are addressing the root causes of the incident. This is a critical step in the incident response process to protect assets and data from further threats and to restore a secure environment for operations.

While analyzing the impact of the incident, restoring services to normal operations, and documenting the incident are all important parts of the overall incident response lifecycle, they are typically associated with other phases such as the detection, containment, or recovery phases. The eradication phase specifically zeroes in on eliminating the threats from the system that was compromised.