Pre-Incident Planning

Prepare for the worst-case scenario

When a breach happens, panic is your enemy. We build the Incident Response procedures, playbooks, and organizational muscle memory so your team knows exactly how to react.

The Blueprint for Incident Response Readiness

You cannot effectively manage a crisis without a plan. We architect the organizational logic - workflows, roles, and decision points - that turns potential chaos into a structured response.

Minimize Downtime

Disruption is expensive. Structure protects your bottom line.

Insurance Ready

Cyber insurance now mandates tested IR plans.

Role Clarity

Everyone knows their job when the alarm rings.

What You Get

Playbooks

Specific step-by-step guides for common scenarios: Ransomware, Employee Data Theft, Business Email Compromise (BEC), and Phishing.

Roles & Comms

Who calls legal? Who talks to the press? Who decides to shut down the server? We define the chain of command before the fog of war sets in.

Tabletop Exercises

We don't just write documents; we test them. We run a simulated 'breach day' with your leadership team to find gaps in the plan.

What You Get

Tangible deliverables that prepare your team before the crisis hits.

Incident Response Playbook

Step-by-step response guides for ransomware, BEC, data breach, and insider threat scenarios. Actionable checklists your team can follow under pressure.

Communication Plan Templates

Pre-drafted internal and external communication templates for legal, HR, PR, and executive stakeholders with clear escalation paths.

Tabletop Exercise Report

Facilitated breach simulation report documenting gaps discovered, decisions tested, and improvement actions identified during the exercise.

Escalation Procedures

Defined chain of command for incident declaration, authority to isolate systems, regulatory notification timelines, and third-party engagement.

Lessons Learned Framework

Post-incident review template and process for capturing root cause, timeline reconstruction, and preventive actions for future incidents.

Engagement Options

Prepare once or stay prepared forever.

Readiness Sprint

4-Week Program

✓ Custom Playbooks
✓ Role Definition
✓ Initial Tabletop

Resilience Retainer

Continuous Improvement

✓ Quarterly Tabletops
✓ Playbook Updates
✓ Tooling Review

Frequently Asked Questions

Does our organization really need an incident response plan?

Yes. Cyber insurers now require documented, tested IR plans as a condition of coverage. NIS2 mandates that in-scope organizations have incident handling procedures. More practically: organizations without plans take 2-3x longer to contain incidents, resulting in significantly higher breach costs according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach research.

What is a tabletop exercise?

A tabletop exercise is a facilitated discussion where key stakeholders - IT, legal, HR, communications, and executive leadership - walk through a simulated breach scenario. We present a realistic attack narrative and ask the team to make the decisions they would face in a real incident. It reveals gaps in the plan without the stress of an actual crisis.

Who should be involved in building the IR plan?

Effective IR planning is cross-functional. We involve your IT and security team for the technical response procedures, legal counsel for regulatory notification obligations (NIS2 requires 24-hour early warning), public relations or communications for customer and media messaging, and HR for insider threat scenarios.

How often should the IR plan be updated?

We recommend reviewing and updating the plan annually as a minimum, plus after any significant change to your IT environment (major cloud migration, new vendors) or after a real incident that exposed gaps. Our Resilience Retainer option includes quarterly plan reviews.

Why D3 Cyber?

Battle Tested

Our playbooks are built on real incident data, not theory. We know what actually breaks during a crisis.

Action Oriented

We don't write 100-page policy docs nobody reads. We create simple, actionable checklists.

Full Team Readiness

We train legal, HR, PR, and execs - not just the IT team.

Don't Wait for the Boom

Get your plan in place in just 3-4 weeks. Satisfy your auditors, your insurers, and your peace of mind.

Prepare Your Defense