IR Plan Development and Review
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Here’s what we deliver

Create comprehensive incident response documentation that aligns with industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and your organization’s unique needs by taking advantage of our Incident Response Plan Development and Review service.

Incident Response Plan

Develop an actionable incident response plan tailored and aligned specifically to your organization’s resource structure, priorities and unique cybersecurity risks by leveraging industry best practices, frameworks and guidance from Unit 42.

Supporting Governance Documentation

Establish governance for executing incident response processes and workflows by utilizing policies drafted by Unit 42 tailored to your priorities, organizational structure, and risk tolerance.

Tactical Playbooks

Utilize detailed incident response playbooks with prescriptive steps to effectively respond to common attack types, such as business email compromise, ransomware, etc. These playbooks leverage the deep knowledge of our incident response experts on how to triage security incidents successfully

Predefined Processes and Playbooks

Unit 42 Retainers ensure no unnecessary delays from negotiating costs and terms or scrambling to find help when time is of the essence. We ensure communication channels are established, existing playbooks are reviewed and understood, and we document points of contact, so everyone is ready at the time of an incident.

IR Stakeholder Briefing

Unit 42 will brief your incident response stakeholders on the new or enhanced incident response plan and supporting documentation, ensuring your team is ready to start using the plan when an incident occurs.

An industry best-practice approach to a solid Incident Response Plan

Align on scope of engagement

Participate in a scoping call between your stakeholders and Unit 42 to identify incident response goals to ensure alignment on project execution.

Review existing documentation

Our team will review existing incident response documentation, including incident response plans, playbooks and governing policies.

Interview key stakeholders

Unit 42 will interview key stakeholders to ensure that documented procedures align with organizational needs and expectations.

Enhance existing or develop new documentation

We’ll enhance existing documentation or develop new incident response plans, playbooks, policies, procedures and workflows based on lessons learned from responding to thousands of security incidents.

Gain buy-in with key stakeholders

Any developed documentation or processes will be socialized with stakeholders to ensure buy-in prior to formal implementation.

Continue to refine IR processes and documentation

Unit 42 can guide you on your annual IR plan review, refreshing and enhancing your incident response plan documentation.

Documentation:

Download the IR Plan Development and Review Datasheet (PDF).