Solutions

Incident Readiness & Crisis Management
Prepared before it gets loud.

This solution builds the playbooks, roles, and decision frameworks your team needs when something truly disruptive happens—ransomware, business email compromise, vendor breach, or a critical SaaS compromise. We focus on the first hours and days, when clarity and speed make the most difference.

Incident playbooks & runbooks Tabletop design & facilitation Crisis communications & decision support

Ideal for organizations that have pieces of IR scattered across emails and shared drives, but want a coherent, tested approach that holds up under pressure.

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Why this solution exists

What Incident Readiness & Crisis Management actually solves

Most organizations have some combination of logs, playbooks, and vendor contacts—but the pieces haven’t been tested together. This solution is about making sure the real-world experience of an incident matches what your documentation promises.

Clarity

Unclear roles & decision rights

During a live incident, the hardest questions often aren’t technical—they’re about who decides what, and when.

  • Defined incident roles and responsibilities
  • Escalation paths for security, IT, legal, and leadership
  • Pre-agreed criteria for engaging outside partners
Execution

Good plans that fall apart under pressure

Playbooks built in a calm room often don’t survive the first noisy hour. We focus on what’s realistic when the clock is ticking.

  • Short, usable runbooks for the first 90 minutes
  • Checklists that can be followed on a call
  • Guidance for when to pause, escalate, or slow down
Communication

Ad hoc messaging & stakeholder confusion

Mixed messages can create as much damage as the incident itself. We help you establish clear, calm communication patterns.

  • Internal updates for executives and staff
  • Customer and partner messaging concepts
  • Alignment with legal, privacy, and HR functions
Approach

How the Incident Readiness solution works

We combine scenario design, playbook development, and practical tabletops into a recurring loop. Each pass makes your organization more practiced and less fragile under stress.

Phase 1

Current state & scenario selection

We start with the incidents that are most plausible and most damaging for your environment, then we build around those.

  • Review of existing plans, tools, and vendors
  • Selection of 2–4 realistic core scenarios
  • Identification of critical systems and stakeholders
Phase 2

Playbook & runbook design

We create or refine playbooks that focus on the first hours and days—the period where decisions and communication matter most.

  • High-level playbooks for each core scenario
  • Concise runbooks for the first 90 minutes
  • Dependencies and evidence requirements documented
Phase 3

Tabletops & improvement loop

We run structured tabletops to test plans, identify friction points, and build comfort with roles and decisions—then refine based on what we learn.

  • Facilitated tabletops tailored to your team
  • Action list and ownership after each session
  • Updated playbooks and runbooks with lessons learned
Deliverables

Outputs you can actually use in an incident

The artifacts from this solution are designed to be pulled up on a call, not just filed in a document library. They’re concise, practical, and tested.

Scenario-based incident playbooks

Clear, scenario-specific playbooks that describe who does what, when, and with which systems and partners.

First 90-minute runbooks

Short, stepwise runbooks for the earliest phase of an incident—triage, containment, communication, and evidence handling.

Role definitions & contact trees

Documented roles, responsibilities, and contact paths for internal teams, vendors, and external partners such as legal and IR firms.

Tabletop reports & action lists

Summary of tabletop sessions, with concrete follow-ups to improve controls, processes, and decision-making.

Fit

Who this solution is for

Built for organizations that take incidents seriously—but don’t want their first major event to be the first time the playbook is opened.

Security & IT leaders

CISOs, vCISOs, and IT directors responsible for ensuring the organization can navigate a security incident without paralyzing the business.

Leadership & crisis teams

Executives and communications leaders who need clarity on when and how they’ll be involved, and what decisions they’ll be asked to make.

High-impact but lean teams

Organizations where a serious incident would be material, but where security and IT teams wear multiple hats and need focused guidance.

Ready to rehearse before the real thing?

We’ll help you design and test incident playbooks so that when something does happen, your team has more than just a PDF—they have practice.

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