How Should You Respond to a Cyberattack?
A practitioner-led session walking through the first hours, first day, and first week of a real cyber incident — from initial detection through containment, communication, and recovery.
Decision-making under pressure.
The first hour of a real incident isn’t a tabletop exercise. Pressure is high, information is incomplete, and the decisions made in the first 60 minutes shape the next 60 days. This session walks through the operational discipline that separates a controlled response from a chaotic one.
Containment before scope.
Isolate affected systems immediately. Preserve forensic evidence. Activate the documented IR plan and named roles. Engage external counsel and the insurance carrier. Notify executive leadership. The temptation to understand the full scope first is the most common mistake — every hour of delay expands the attacker’s window.
Scope, decisions, and recovery.
Establish the full scope. Make notification decisions against regulatory and contractual obligations. Begin recovery from clean backups. Make the ransom decision (if relevant) only after scope and recovery viability are understood. Run the communication plan with discipline — internal, customer, regulator, and public.
Response readiness, before you need it.
Cyber Resilience & Incident Readiness services build the documented IR plan, run the tabletop exercises that prove it works, and stage the operational discipline ahead of time. MDR operates the detection and response layer that often prevents the incident from reaching the first-hour scenario in the first place.