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Incident Readiness
Preparation before. Discipline during. Evidence after.
Performance Data prepares organizations for cyber incidents, defines escalation paths, tests response procedures, and coordinates technical support when events occur.
Capabilities
What it covers.
Incident response planning
Incident response planning produces the plan an organization will actually use when a security event occurs: who is in charge, how severity is judged, what is done in the first hour, who is notified and when, how evidence is preserved, how decisions are recorded and how the organization returns to normal.
Learn more →02 / CapabilityTabletop exercises
A tabletop exercise walks leadership and technical staff through a realistic incident scenario, step by step, to test whether the plan, the people and the decisions hold up before a real event tests them.
Learn more →03 / CapabilityRansomware readiness review
A ransomware readiness review assesses how well the organization would prevent, detect, contain and recover from a ransomware attack, against the controls that incident data and insurers consistently identify as decisive: credential protection, exposed services, endpoint detection, segmentation, backup isolation and restore capability.
Learn more →04 / CapabilityBreach escalation procedures
Breach escalation procedures define exactly what happens from the moment a suspected data breach is detected: who is told, in what order, within what time, who decides whether it is a breach, who notifies the insurer, counsel, regulators, customers and affected individuals, and how every step is recorded.
Learn more →05 / CapabilityEvidence preservation workflows
Evidence preservation workflows ensure that when an incident occurs, the logs, images, messages and records needed for investigation, insurance claims, regulatory response and possible litigation are captured, protected and documented before they are overwritten, altered or lost.
Learn more →06 / CapabilityBackup recovery drills
Backup recovery drills rehearse the full recovery of critical systems from backup under realistic conditions, including the assumption that the attacker controlled the environment and the primary systems are untrustworthy.
Learn more →07 / CapabilityExecutive incident briefing templates
Executive incident briefing templates give leadership a consistent way to receive incident information during an event: what is known, what is not, what has been done, what decisions are needed, what the exposure is and what happens next, in a form that fits a thirty-minute call.
Learn more →08 / CapabilityCoordination with legal, forensic, insurance, and technical partners
Coordination with legal, forensic, insurance and technical partners establishes, before an incident, who the organization’s external responders are, what each will do, how they are engaged and paid, and how their work is coordinated so that counsel, investigators, the insurer and the technical teams act in the right order and do not undermine one another.
Learn more →09 / CapabilityPost-incident control review
A post-incident control review examines a security incident after it is contained to establish which controls failed, which were missing, which worked, and what must change so the same path cannot be used again.
Learn more →Who it is for
Observe
Understand the environment, the risks, the obligations, and the operational constraints.Fortify
Strengthen practical safeguards without disrupting essential workflows.Verify
Test whether controls perform as intended.Evidence
Document the results clearly for leadership, auditors, clients, and partners.Sustain
Keep controls operating through reporting, review, remediation, and continuous improvement.