What Is the Primary Purpose of Incident Response?

This entire podcast series has been about, first principle, sibe security. When i ask that question at the hash table, what is the primary purpose of incident response? The answers i got were not in a very tight shot group. I asked rick dogton about it, who, by the way, has literally written a master's level class on how to do insidant response. Jerry archer, the sally macy s o was much more straightforward. But i'll give the last word to ted wagner, the s a p see.