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The question is not if your business will face a cyber incident, but when. The difference between a minor disruption and a catastrophic breach often comes down to one thing: did you have a plan?
Companies with an IRP contain breaches 54 days faster on average
Incident response planning reduces breach costs by an average of $2.66 million
Required by HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and most cyber insurance policies
The work you do before an incident happens. This is the most important phase.
Detecting that an incident is occurring and understanding its scope.
Stop the incident from spreading while preserving evidence.
Remove the threat completely from your environment.
Restore systems to normal operations and verify they are clean.
Review what happened and improve your defenses. This phase is often skipped but is critical.
For small businesses, one person may fill multiple roles. The important thing is that every role is assigned before an incident occurs.
A plan that hasn't been tested is just a document. Schedule these exercises:
Tabletop exercise: walk through a scenario verbally with your team
Functional exercise: simulate an incident with hands-on response activities
Full exercise: simulate a real incident end-to-end including communications
Lessons learned review and plan update
CyberITEX helps businesses create, test, and maintain incident response plans. We also provide managed security monitoring so you can detect incidents before they become breaches.
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