Incident Response

Cyber Incident Readiness

Cyberus assesses whether agreed response foundations are documented and usable, then prioritizes preparation work.

Assess incident readiness See what readiness covers

Incident roles and escalation paths
Logging, evidence and access dependencies
External and internal coordination
Prioritized readiness roadmap

The proposition

Find preparation gaps before an incident

Identify the preparation gaps that could slow investigation and decisions before a real incident creates urgency. The work focuses on incident roles and escalation paths and records where evidence or authorization limits the conclusion.

Readiness is more than a plan document

Response depends on people knowing who can decide, investigators reaching suitable evidence, and business owners understanding service dependencies. A written plan may not reveal whether those foundations are available.

Cyberus reviews agreed scenarios and current arrangements, samples supporting evidence and records uncertainty. The output is a point-in-time readiness view, not assurance that every incident will be contained.

Foundations before an incident

Role clarity. Who decides, investigates, communicates and restores is written down for the chosen scenarios.
Evidence sources. Logs, retention and access owners are known, along with the limits of what can be collected.
Critical dependencies. Services, suppliers and contacts that recovery relies on are identified in advance.
Preparation priorities. Gaps are ranked by impact and effort, giving leaders a short list to act on first.

Why it matters

Business risk: Many organizations learn during a crisis that logs were not kept, contacts were out of date or nobody owned the decision.
Decision it supports: Leaders can decide where to spend limited preparation effort first, based on the scenarios that would hurt most.
What you receive: You receive a responsibility map, an evidence inventory, a dependency review and a roadmap, within the agreed scope.

A usable readiness baseline

Responsibility map

Clarifies decision, investigation, communication and recovery roles for selected scenarios.

Why it matters: Unclear ownership costs hours at the start of an incident, when delay is most expensive.
Supports: Named roles for decisions, investigation and communication

Evidence inventory

Records relevant logs, retention, access owners and known collection limitations.

Why it matters: If key logs expired or nobody can reach them, an investigation starts with a blind spot.
Supports: Knowing what evidence exists before it is needed

Dependency review

Examines critical services, suppliers, contacts and recovery prerequisites.

Why it matters: Recovery often stalls on a supplier, an account or a person nobody thought to list.
Supports: A view of what must be available for restoration

Readiness roadmap

Prioritizes preparation tasks by impact, effort, owner and validation method.

Why it matters: A long list of gaps is hard to fund, so ranking by impact and effort turns concern into a plan.
Supports: A sequenced, owned and testable preparation plan

How readiness is reviewed

Select scenarios
Choose incident types and critical services that make the review concrete.
Why it matters
Concrete scenarios make the review specific and prevent generic advice that nobody applies.
Interview owners
Map responsibilities, decisions, communications, dependencies and current concerns.
Why it matters
People who run services know the informal workarounds that written plans miss.
Sample foundations
Review plans, contacts, access and representative evidence sources.
Why it matters
Sampling shows whether documents, contacts and access work in practice rather than only on paper.
Prioritize preparation
Agree an achievable roadmap and ways to validate completed work.
Why it matters
A roadmap the team can afford is more likely to be completed, and validation shows it worked.

Why choose Cyberus for cyber incident readiness

People
Roles, authority and contacts
Evidence
Sources, retention and access
Operations
Dependencies and recovery inputs
Plan
Prioritized, owned actions

Team certifications

Individual qualifications held by members of the Cyberus team. They are not company accreditations, and not every consultant on an engagement holds every badge.

OSCP
Hands-on penetration testing skills, from enumeration to exploitation and privilege escalation.
OSWE
Web application security skills, including source code review and exploiting complex web vulnerabilities.
OSED
Exploit development skills, including analysing Windows software and writing custom exploits.
OSCP+
Hands-on penetration testing skills, from enumeration to exploitation and privilege escalation.
CRTA
Red team analysis skills, including adversary tactics and techniques.
eWPT
Web application penetration testing skills, from assessment method to exploiting common web flaws.
eWPTX
Advanced web application penetration testing skills, including complex attack techniques.
eMAPT
Mobile application penetration testing skills for Android and iOS applications.
BTL1
Defensive security skills across security operations, phishing analysis, forensics and incident response.
eCIR
Incident response skills, including investigating, containing and analysing security incidents.
CRTE
Red teaming skills focused on Windows environments and the tradecraft used against them.
CCT
EC-Council's Certified Cybersecurity Technician (CCT) validates foundational security, network, and defense skills.
Security+
CompTIA Security+ validates core skills in baseline cybersecurity, risk management, and threats.