Incident Response Consulting
A cyberattack is not the time to figure out who does what. We help businesses build a real incident response capability — so when something goes wrong, your team knows exactly how to respond, contain, and recover.
IR consulting is about being ready. We work with your team before an incident happens — building plans, running practice scenarios, and making sure the right expertise is available when you need it fast.
IR Planning
Building your incident response foundation — defining roles, communication chains, escalation paths, and decision-making structure so your team isn't improvising under pressure.
Playbook Development
Creating step-by-step response playbooks for the incidents most likely to hit your business — ransomware, data breach, phishing, insider threat, and more.
Tabletop Exercises
Running realistic attack scenarios with your team in a structured discussion format — exposing gaps in your plan before a real attacker does.
IR Retainer
On-call incident response support with guaranteed response times — so when an incident happens, you're not starting from zero trying to find help.
Post-Incident Review
After an incident is resolved, we conduct a structured review — what happened, how your team responded, what worked, what didn't, and what needs to change.
IR Readiness Assessment
An honest evaluation of where your incident response capability stands today — identifying gaps, missing documentation, and the highest-priority improvements to make first.
If your business has never tested its incident response plan — or doesn't have one — you're not alone. Most organizations only discover this gap during an actual incident.
Your business has grown but your incident response process is still "figure it out when it happens"
You have a plan on paper but your team has never actually practiced it against a realistic scenario
A customer, insurer, or compliance requirement is asking for evidence of incident response capability
You recently had an incident and want a proper review of what happened and what to fix
Your IT or security team is small and you want expert IR support available on short notice
You want the confidence of knowing exactly what your team would do if ransomware hit tomorrow
How We Work With You
Readiness Review
We start by understanding where you are — what exists, what's missing, and what your biggest gaps are.
Plan & Build
We develop or improve your IR plan and playbooks, tailored to your actual environment and threat landscape.
Test It
We run a tabletop exercise to put your plan under pressure — finding the gaps before an attacker does.
Refine & Maintain
Plans go stale as businesses change. We help you keep your IR capability current and tested over time.
Common Questions
We already have an incident response plan. Do we still need this?
Having a plan and having a working plan are different things. Most IR plans sit in a document that nobody has read recently, doesn't reflect current systems, and has never been tested. If your team hasn't run through a realistic scenario in the last year, there are almost certainly gaps — and a tabletop exercise is the fastest way to find them without the cost of a real incident.
What is a tabletop exercise and how does it work?
A tabletop exercise is a structured discussion where your team works through a realistic attack scenario step by step — without touching live systems. We play the role of facilitator, introducing the scenario and complications while your team talks through how they'd detect, contain, communicate, and recover. It surfaces gaps in your plan, roles, and tooling in a safe environment where mistakes don't cost anything.
What does an IR retainer include?
An IR retainer gives your business guaranteed access to incident response expertise when you need it — with agreed response times, a pre-established understanding of your environment, and support available when an incident happens. The specifics are scoped per engagement based on your size and risk profile.
How is a post-incident review different from a regular debrief?
A post-incident review is a structured, independent examination of everything that happened — the timeline of the attack, how your team detected and responded, decisions made under pressure, and what the outcome was. The goal isn't to assign blame but to produce honest, actionable findings that make your team better prepared for next time.
We're a small team. Is IR consulting relevant for us?
Small teams are often the most exposed — they face the same threats as larger organizations but with fewer resources and less margin for error. A clear IR plan, a practiced playbook, and on-call retainer support matter more when you don't have a 20-person security team to fall back on. We work with businesses of all sizes and scope everything accordingly.
Don't wait for an incident to test your readiness.
Get in touch and we'll start with an honest look at where your incident response capability stands today.
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