Mitigation phase is defined as?

• A. Reduce or eliminate risks; ongoing actions to reduce exposure or loss.
• B. Immediate actions to save lives.
• C. Coordination of cleanup crews after an incident.
• D. Conduct offensive security operations.

Answer: (A)

Mitigation is about reducing risk and limiting potential damage through ongoing, proactive measures. It involves putting in place controls, redundancies, training, and policies that lower exposure or loss before an incident escalates. This is why the best choice describes reducing or eliminating risks and maintaining ongoing actions to lessen exposure or loss. The other options refer to actions in different parts of incident management: immediate life-saving efforts belong to the response phase, coordinating cleanup is part of recovery, and offensive security operations are proactive/adversarial actions not focused on reducing risk in the mitigation sense.