Cyber incident response (CIR) is a plan that organisations use to respond to, manage, and mitigate cyber security incidents. The goal of CIR is to minimise the damage and disruption of attacks, and to restore operations as quickly as possible.
CIR involves the following steps:
The lessons learned from CIR activities can be used to improve an organisation’s security posture by informing prevention and mitigation strategies.
When a cyber incident occurs, effective response is essential to minimise business impact and safely restore normal operations. Our skilled, experienced, and accredited incident responders can prepare your teams and proactively intercept, contain, and remediate attacks whenever and wherever they occur – before an attacker can achieve their goals. There is clear evidence that the faster a cyber breach can be identified and contained, the lower its potential cost and impact. Despite this, cyber security vendors continue to rely on reactive, ‘post-mortem’ services – deploying boots-on-the-ground to manage recovery and clean-up with the damage already done. We provide the tooling, guidance, and capabilities to facilitate proactive remote response and combat attacks of all levels of sophistication – including live, ‘hands-on-keyboard’ threats from persistent and motivated adversaries using sophisticated offensive tooling and tradecraft.
A cybersecurity incident response plan is a document that provides IT and cybersecurity professionals with instructions on how to respond to a security incident. Cyber Incident Response should include a Cyber Incident Response plan as part of a managed service.