Are you prepared to manage a cyber incident?
In our experience, the answer to this question is generally not well-known by organizations. We see organizations at various stages of preparedness, from initial incident response and business continuity planning to organizations who have well established roles and processes but who are looking for qualified, third-party feedback their capabilities and likelihood of successfully managing real life incidents in real time.
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It would be impossible to prepare for every possible scenario; and yet, having too general of a scope for incident response and business continuity planning tends to ensure that when something specific happens, we are not as well prepared as we had hoped. Finding balance between general preparedness and targeted processes based on the specifics of your business processes and environment is a challenge, but one that is necessary to give us the best chance to minimize the impact of incidents.
Setting Your Organization Up for Incident Response Success
When incidents happen, they are unlikely to happen exactly like the scenarios for which we have prepared. A directed incident response simulation is a valuable exercise to help your organization understand its current capabilities and preparedness and to evaluate what improvements may increase the chances of success when responders are called into action. Qualified evaluators will be able to leverage their experience across a wide variety of organizations and environments to assess how well your planning will address threats most relevant to your organization, as well as able to introduce unexpected factors into the exercise to gauge how well you will fare when things don't go as planned.
Scenarios for incident response simulations may include data breaches, service interruptions or DDoS, environmental emergencies, ransomware attacks, insider threats, and much more. With so many threats to contend with there is a lot to consider in order to establish an effective incident response program, but the level of care you take in doing so will help to reduce downtime and impact when incidents occur. Let Heighten set your business up for success, speak with one of our experts today.
How Heighten can help
At Heighten, our team has a wealth of experience in both offensive and defensive security, and strong knowledge of existing and emerging threats. We have leveraged this knowledge and experience across many customer environments which informs our approach and rigor when evaluating each new and unique environment. Our team will test and evaluate your resources, planning and processes via tabletop exercise and testing scenarios that best reflect the risks and challenges faced by your organization. We will then guide your organization through a review of your planned responses to specific scenarios resulting in actionable improvements where needed.
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Our goal is not only to strengthen specific processes and planning, but to increase awareness around new or existing threats that are relevant to your environment and business cases. Our aim is to walk you through realistic scenarios, including the unexpected, to best evaluate and reshape your incident response planning and capabilities.
Talk with an expert today
Elevate your cybersecurity by having a conversation with one of our experts. We are ready to help Heighten your view of what a true security partner looks like.