NIST 800-61 Aligned

When it's an incident,
the clock is everything.

Structured response from first alert to board-ready report. With a retainer in place, detection-to-containment is already working in your favor.

The lifecycle

Four phases, no improvisation

PHASE 01

Preparation

Deploy sensors, establish runbooks, define escalation paths and SLAs, and baseline your environment before an incident occurs.

PHASE 02

Detection & Analysis

Real-time triage, multi-source log correlation, and threat-intel enrichment to determine scope, impact, and severity in minutes.

PHASE 03

Containment & Eradication

Isolate affected systems, block IOCs at firewall and endpoint, remove persistence, and validate a clean state before restoration.

PHASE 04

Recovery & Reporting

Restore operations, verify integrity, and deliver a full post-incident report with forensic evidence, timeline, and root cause.

Engagement timeline

From T+0 to close-out

T+0 · DETECTION

Alert fires in the SIEM

A correlation rule triggers and enters triage with enriched context — asset criticality, user, and threat-intel reputation.

T+5m · TRIAGE

Severity classified, analyst engaged

Critical alerts get immediate hands-on investigation. We confirm true positive versus benign before acting.

T+30m · CONTAINMENT

Spread is stopped

Affected hosts isolated, malicious IPs and domains blocked, compromised credentials revoked.

T+4h · INITIAL REPORT

Preliminary findings delivered

Leadership gets an early picture: what happened, what's contained, what's open, and next steps.

T+24–48h · CLOSE-OUT

Full post-incident report

Forensic timeline, IOC list, ATT&CK mapping, root cause, and prioritized hardening — audit-ready.

case-4471 — containment log
# CRITICAL · T1486 ransomware
isolate host FS-03 --quarantine
✓ FS-03 isolated — 0 active sessions
block ioc --feed case-4471
✓ 14 indicators blocked (8 ip · 6 domain)
revoke creds --user svc_backup
! forcing re-auth across 3 systems
✓ containment complete
What you get

Every IR engagement includes

Alert Triage & Severity

Triaged within defined SLA windows using CVSS, asset criticality, threat-intel context, and business impact. Critical alerts get hands-on investigation — never automated dismissal.

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Forensic Investigation

Disk imaging, memory capture, cross-source log correlation, and network traffic analysis. All evidence follows chain-of-custody suitable for legal and compliance proceedings.

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Post-Incident Reporting

Executive summary, technical timeline, IOCs, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, root cause analysis, and prioritized remediation — in every report.

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Lessons Learned & Hardening

Review sessions identify detection gaps and process improvements. We update rules, refine runbooks, and harden configs to prevent recurrence.

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Escalation & Communication

Defined escalation paths, status updates, and coordination with your teams and third parties — ISPs, law enforcement, and regulators when required.

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Compliance Documentation

Artifacts designed to satisfy HIPAA, PCI-DSS, state breach-notification laws, and cyber-insurance policy terms. Audit-ready, every time.

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Critical-alert triage
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Containment from detection
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Preliminary findings
24–48h
Full post-incident report

Establish your retainer before you need it

The best time to set up incident response is before the alert fires. Let's scope a retainer for your environment.