Incident Response Readiness Assessment

Is your organisation prepared for cybersecurity incidents?

The Incident Response Readiness Assessment evaluates your organisation’s ability to handle cyber threats in key areas like governance, detection, and recovery. By completing it, you'll uncover strengths and gaps in your protocols, with actionable recommendations to boost your cybersecurity readiness.

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Low (incredibly unprepared):

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Begin by establishing a formal Incident Response policy. Define clear roles and responsibilities across the organisation, and ensure that management buys-in. It’s critical to build awareness around the importance of Incident Response at a leadership level, to drive company-wide participation and resource allocation.

Moderate (moderately prepared):

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Strengthen your existing governance by ensuring regular reviews of the Incident Response policy. Create a dedicated Incident Response Team (IRT) if you don’t already have one, and make sure to coordinate it across all departments, including executive leadership.

High (incredibly prepared):

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Continue fine-tuning your governance by integrating the feedback from post-incident reviews. Ensure that leadership is actively involved in all Incident Response planning and testing. Encourage leadership to lead, or to participate in attack simulations.

Low (incredibly unprepared):

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Start by developing basic Incident Response playbooks for common attack scenarios (e.g., ransomware, phishing). Train all your employees on the importance of cybersecurity and their roles in reporting incidents. Consider conducting simple tabletop exercises to begin building your Incident Response muscle.

Moderate (moderately prepared):

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Enhance your preparation by building out training programs and making sure that your playbooks cover all scenarios, even sophisticated ones. Test your Incident Response plan annually with simulations and exercises. Prioritise the protection of your high-value assets by regularly updating your response strategies.

High (incredibly prepared):

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Continue refining your training and simulations to always reflect the latest threat intelligence. Ensure that each department in the organisation knows its role in responding to every type of incident. Perform advanced red-team/blue-team exercises to test the effectiveness of your ability to respond in high-pressure environments.

Low (incredibly unprepared):

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Implement basic detection systems, such as intrusion detection systems (IDS) or antivirus tools, and ensure 24/7 monitoring of critical systems. Define your escalation protocols for when alerts should be brought to your Incident Response team.

Moderate (moderately prepared):

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Deploy more advanced monitoring solutions like SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) to detect and analyse threats in real-time. Ensure automated alerts are tied to Incident Response measures, and conduct regular fine-tunings of all monitoring systems, to reduce false positives.

High (incredibly prepared):

Recommendation

Continue optimising your detection protocols by integrating threat intelligence feeds to improve detection accuracy. Make sure that all your critical systems are monitored with advanced analytics and machine learning-based detection tools. Regularly audit your detection protocols, and upgrade them based on evolving threats.

Low (incredibly unprepared):

Recommendation

Develop a basic Incident Response plan, and identify the triggers that would cause the plan to be activated. Build relationships with all external partners (e.g., third-party Incident Response providers) in case of an incident. Ensure your team is familiar with the basics of isolating affected systems and communicating during any incident.

Moderate (moderately prepared):

Recommendation

Formalise your Incident Response procedures, ensuring they’re tied to clear escalation pathways and pre-defined responsibilities. Train your employees regularly on how to contain incidents quickly and safely. Ensure your organisation is prepared to contact external resources if they’re needed.

High (incredibly prepared):

Recommendation

Optimise your response by incorporating the latest threat intelligence, and lessons learned from past incidents. Make sure that your response is well-coordinated with external partners, such as law enforcement, third-party cybersecurity firms, and all regulatory bodies. Regularly test your ability to respond to sophisticated attacks with minimal downtime.

Low (incredibly unprepared):

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Focus on creating a recovery plan that makes sure systems can be restored quickly after an incident. Develop a basic communication plan to notify stakeholders and make sure that the recovery process is well-documented.

Moderate (moderately prepared):

Recommendation

Make sure that your organisation has an overarching recovery plan that includes validating systems and checking your integrity after any incident. Formalise your post-incident review process to identify any gaps, to steadily improve all of your response capabilities.

High (incredibly prepared):

Recommendation

Continuously refine your recovery processes by incorporating automation wherever possible, to expedite system restoration. Build out your post-incident reviews so that they include any and all new business insights, bringing together feedback from all departments to magnify your recovery strategies. Make sure that the lessons learned from each incident inform your future response and preparation strategies.

Incident Response Readiness Assessment

Incident Response Readiness Assessment

Before we proceed, could you please provide some basic information about you?

1. Governance and leadership

2. Preparation

3. Detection and monitoring

4. Response

5. Recovery and post-incident review

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