With extensive experience in incident response, JUMPSEC enables organisations to proactively prepare for worst-case scenarios, bridging the gap between theory and practice through dynamic exercises and tailored planning.
Incident Readiness
Transform your incident response capability with JUMPSEC’s Incident Readiness services.
Effective incident management is not about avoiding every potential threat—it’s about being prepared to identify, contain, and recover from incidents with minimal disruption. JUMPSEC’s Incident Readiness service equips your organisation with the practical tools, skills, and strategies needed to mitigate the business impact of a cyber crisis.
- What is incident readiness?
- Bridging the gap between planning and execution
- Our Approach
- Our Credentials
- Why choose JUMPSEC
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What is Incident Readiness?
Incident Readiness is a proactive approach to crisis management, ensuring your organisation is equipped to respond to and recover from cyber incidents effectively. By focusing on operational resilience and leveraging real-world expertise, JUMPSEC’s Incident Readiness service ensures your team can confidently manage high-pressure situations.
Our services are flexibly delivered based on client needs, typically selection of three core components:
Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
Develop actionable plans to ensure critical business functions can continue during and after a disruption.
Incident Response Playbooks (IRPs)
Create detailed, scenario-based guides to ensure swift and effective action during crises.
JUMPSEC’s approach to BCP goes beyond merely creating a document to sit on a shelf. We deliver a comprehensive and tailored BCP service that ensures not only the development of a bespoke plan but also the validation of its effectiveness through highly realistic exercises.
Bridging the Gap Between Planning and Execution
Many organisations invest heavily in tools but neglect to test how effectively their people and processes perform under real-world conditions.
JUMPSEC’s approach to Incident Readiness focuses on:
Realism
Designing realistic scenarios tailored to your organisation’s threat landscape.
Practicality
Empowering your team to respond effectively, even under pressure.
Resilience
Ensuring continuity plans and playbooks withstand the demands of a live incident.
Our service combines technical insight with operational expertise, ensuring you are prepared for the challenges that matter most to your business.
Our Approach
JUMPSEC delivers Incident Readiness services through a structured methodology designed to deliver tangible improvements in your organisation’s crisis management capabilities.
Built on Proven Expertise
JUMPSEC’s incident readiness services are delivered by highly certified consultants, combining deep technical knowledge with operational insight.
Our Credentials:
- CREST certifications
- NCSC IR Level 2 accreditation
- CIE scheme accreditation
- Specialist qualifications in Microsoft Sentinel & Defender (e.g., SC-100, SC-200, AZ-500)
JUMPSEC hold a range of CREST certifications, NCSC IR Level 2 and CIE scheme accredited, and pertinent to incident readiness, our consultants hold CISSP, GIAC Defending Advanced Threats (GDAT), and a host of specialist certifications for Microsoft Sentinel & Defender (i.e SC-100, SC-200 and AZ 500).
Why Choose JUMPSEC for Incident Readiness?
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Tailored Solutions
Every plan, exercise, and playbook is uniquely designed to address your specific risks and priorities.
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Real-World Validation
Our approach goes beyond theory, exposing teams to realistic scenarios that test their capabilities under pressure.
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Actionable Results
We don’t just identify gaps—we deliver practical recommendations to strengthen your readiness and resilience.
Take the First Step Towards Incident Resilience
The faster a breach is identified and contained, the lower its potential impact. JUMPSEC’s Incident Readiness service gives you the confidence to navigate the complexities of a live cyber crisis with precision and agility.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the characteristics of a typical Red Team exercise?
A typical ‘Red Team’ attack simulation exercise is:
- Objective-focused. Designed to prove or disprove whether an attacker can perform specific actions associated with risk events the business aims to guard against
- Threat-led. Designed to use the techniques, tactics and procedures used by advanced threat actors which are likely to target the client organisation
- Adversarial and covert. Typically a black-box, covert assessment conducted from the perspective of an external attacker without privileged information about the target
- Authentic and realistic. Designed to expose the organisation to the pressures of a real-world cyber-attack to offer an opportunity to practice and assess how they would fare in a genuine attack scenario.
What are the goals of a Red Team exercise?
JUMPSEC aims to access systems and data that real-world attackers are likely to target, with realistic attacker goals relative to the organisation’s threat profile.
JUMPSEC can simulate end-to-end attacks with a range of goals including:
- Access and exfiltrate sensitive customer data, with a view to exploit the information for financial gain (e.g. through theft of credit card information) extort the organisation under threat of GDPR sanctions, or undermine the integrity of the organisation to its customers.
- Perform a malicious action for criminal gain, such as fraudulently making a payment.
- Steal sensitive intellectual property or proprietary information that may threaten the organisation’s market competitiveness.
- Tamper with business-critical systems to impair the organisation’s ability to operate through disruption or destruction.
Why should you undertake an attack simulation?
Undertaking a Red Team exercise enables an organisation to understand its cyber risk exposure by attempting to simulate chains of attacker actions which, if executed in a real-world setting, would have a critical impact upon the business.
Red Team exercises allow you to evaluate your susceptibility to cyber-attack. They provide organisations with the answer to the following questions:
- If we were cyber-attacked, what could an attacker achieve, and what might the business impact be?
- Are our current security controls effective in preventing and detecting malicious activity on our network?
- Is our cyber risk assessment accurate and are the controls we have put in place effective in mitigating risk to the business?
Organisations with a solid security baseline who have implemented robust security controls and are confident in the efficacy of their detection capability (in terms of both tooling and personnel capability) are able to maximise the opportunity provided by Red Teaming, using it as an opportunity to stress-test and exercise their security team.
Red Teaming typically takes the path of least resistance; the shortest route from the point of breach to the end-goal. Red Team exercises are designed to answer the question of “can the attacker cause harm”, as opposed to “how can I stop an attacker from causing harm”. This means that without Red Teaming an organisation’s broader defensive controls and capabilities are unlikely to be tested, resulting in limited learning and improvement opportunities.
For this reason, Red Team exercises are especially well-suited to organisations who have already invested in developing their cyber security controls and capabilities. Organisations who lack an established security baseline should consider alternative approaches which are less focused on realism, and more attuned to identifying and driving capability improvements, before engaging in a hyper-realistic simulation such as a Red Team.
- If we were cyber-attacked, what could an attacker achieve, and what might the business impact be?
- Are our current security controls effective in preventing and detecting malicious activity on our network?
- Is our cyber risk assessment accurate and are the controls we have put in place effective in mitigating risk to the business?
When is Red Teaming specifically right for you?
Organisations with a solid security baseline who have implemented robust security controls and are confident in the efficacy of their detection capability (in terms of both tooling and personnel capability) are able to maximise the opportunity provided by Red Teaming, using it as an opportunity to stress-test and exercise their security team.
However, Red Teaming typically takes the path of least resistance; the shortest route from the point of breach to the end-goal. Red Team exercises are designed to answer the question of “can the attacker cause harm”, as opposed to “how can I stop an attacker from causing harm”. This means that without Red Teaming an organisation’s broader defensive controls and capabilities are unlikely to be tested, resulting in limited learning and improvement opportunities.
For this reason, Red Team exercises are especially well-suited to organisations who have already invested in developing their cyber security controls and capabilities. Organisations who lack an established security baseline should consider alternative approaches which are less focused on realism, and more attuned to identifying and driving capability improvements, before engaging in a hyper-realistic simulation such as a Red Team.
What does a Red Team provide you with?
A JUMPSEC attack simulation will allow you to:
- Stress-test your cyber resilience and effectiveness against advanced offensive capabilities used by real-world attackers
- Validate the returns on your security investment to-date by assessing the effectiveness of your cyber controls and capabilities to combat an authentic and realistic cyber-attack.
- Realise your risk exposure by assessing and understanding the likelihood of a successful attack.
- Demonstrate the value of security investment by communicating cyber risk in clear business terms. A JUMPSEC Red Team will highlight the actual business impact of a cyber attacker achieving technical goals.
- Enhance the cyber-readiness of your organisation by exercising your people, tuning your tooling, and optimising your processes in preparation for a genuine attack.
- Identify areas for future capability development to inform your development roadmap and guide future cyber security investment.