The library IT lab virtual machine used for OSINT is never snapshotted or reset, and malware from a sketchy event-flyer site persists into the next case. What lab-hygiene practice is missing?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A lab VM that never gets rolled back is a hotel room nobody ever cleans. Whatever the last guest left—including malware from a sketchy flyer site—greets the next case. Snapshots and resets make the research box disposable again.
Full Explanation
An OSINT lab should be disposable. Snapshot or rebuild practices return the research VM to a known-good state so tracking cookies, malware, and leftover credentials from one case do not contaminate the next. Case evidence belongs in the notebook and evidence store, not as irreplaceable state inside an unclean VM. Sharing the environment with production patron PCs or keeping an infected image as a trophy increases risk.