Incident Response Readiness
Validate that your IR plans, playbooks, and muscle memory hold up before a crisis, not during one.
Assessment and improvement of incident response plans and playbooks.
Why teams engage us
Plans go stale the week after they are written. Cloud and SaaS sprawl, identity-centric attacks, and ransomware pressure have outpaced many playbooks. When an incident hits, teams discover missing contacts, unclear decision rights, and tooling that does not log what investigators need.
What we deliver
We review IR plans, playbooks, and tooling readiness against realistic scenarios, including ransomware, business email compromise, and cloud identity compromise. We facilitate tabletops or technical walkthroughs, capture gaps, and help you update procedures, communications templates, and evidence retention practices.
How we run it
- Artifact review: plans, RACI, retainers, forensic contacts, runbooks
- Scenario design: tailored to your industry and tech stack
- Exercise: tabletop, hybrid, or technical simulation as appropriate
- Hotwash: prioritized fixes and owners
- Optional: retest after remediation window
Outcomes you can expect
- Updated IR plan and playbooks with clear roles and decision triggers
- Gap list mapped to tooling, logging, and legal/comms readiness
- Exercise report with lessons learned and tracked actions
- Improved confidence across security, IT, legal, and executives
Why Evaluris
- •Scenarios reflect modern attacker tradecraft, including identity and cloud pivot paths.
- •We bridge technical IR with executive communications expectations.
- •We leave you with actionable updates, not a critique without a path forward.
Deliverables
- Readiness report
- Playbook updates
- Tabletop or exercise support
When it makes sense
- •Preparing for certification
- •After incident
- •Annual refresh
FAQ
Do you provide 24/7 incident response retainer?
This engagement focuses on readiness and improvement. Retained response can be discussed separately or paired with your existing MSSP/MDR relationships, we align playbooks to those contracts.
How technical are the exercises?
We match the audience. Executive tabletops focus on decisions and comms; technical drills validate tooling, logging, and analyst procedures. Hybrid formats are common.
Can you align to regulatory notification requirements?
Yes. We incorporate notification timelines and evidence expectations from frameworks relevant to you, without providing legal advice, your counsel validates final obligations.
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