Develop a tailored incident response plan and train your team for core resilience.
Echelon Risk + Cyber offers comprehensive services to enhance your organization's preparedness and response to cyber threats.
We specialize in creating tailored solutions that encompass every level of your organization, from executive decision-makers to operational teams.
Our goal is to help you achieve a resilient cybersecurity posture through well-crafted incident response strategies and engaging, scenario-based tabletop exercises.
Our Tabletop Exercises (TTX) are designed to simulate real-world cyber incidents, empowering your team to respond effectively in a controlled environment. We offer specialized TTX solutions for different organizational levels to ensure every facet of your response capabilities is tested and optimized:
Tailored for C-suite and board members, these exercises focus on:
-Strategic decision-making
-Crisis communications
-High-level coordination in the face of major cybersecurity incidents.
The goal is to improve top-down visibility and ensure leadership is equipped to make informed decisions when incidents occur.
Designed for IT and cybersecurity teams, technical TTX focuses on:
-Hands-on incident detection
-Response actions
-Remediation
These scenarios simulate advanced persistent threats (APTs), malware outbreaks and system compromises, challenging your team’s technical expertise.
Our managerial TTX targets mid-level managers and department heads, ensuring they understand the organizational impact of incidents.
These exercises emphasize:
-Inter-departmental communication
-Escalation processes
-Align response actions with business objectives
Operational-level TTX focuses on day-to-day operations and response teams, ensuring coordination across different functions like help desk, network operations, and security monitoring.
This exercise tests:
-Operational preparedness for handling incident notifications, system reboots, and recovery actions.
Our Incident Response Plan development service focuses on creating a comprehensive, tailored plan that aligns with your organization's unique risk profile, regulatory requirements, and operational needs.
For organizations with an existing IRP, we offer a thorough review to identify gaps and align your plan with industry best practices, ensuring it remains adaptable to evolving threats.
We create comprehensive, tailored IRPs that align with your unique risk profile and regulatory requirements and work closely with key stakeholders to address all critical aspects.
Incident Management:
-Detection and classification
-Containment
-Eradication
-Recovery
Communication Protocols:
-Structured guidelines for internal and external coordination.
Gap Analysis: Identify weaknesses and areas for improvement in current IRPs.
Benchmarking: Align with industry best practices (NIST, ISO, CIS).
Adaptability: Ensure your plan evolves with changing technology and emerging threats.
Our Incident Response Playbooks provide step-by-step guides for responding to specific cybersecurity threats, such as ransomware, phishing, or insider threats. These playbooks are customized to your environment and structured to ensure quick and efficient responses.
We focus on what to do and who is involved, providing a strategic approach to incident response. It is broader and meant for guiding decision-making and coordination during various types of incidents.
They include:
-Pre-incident preparation
-Detection protocols
-Containment
-Recovery steps
Ensuring your team knows exactly what actions to take during an incident.
Empower your leadership with Incident Response Placemats, a high-level, visual tool designed to provide executives with a quick reference guide during a cybersecurity incident. These placemats distill complex incident response plans into easy-to-understand, actionable steps, ensuring that decision-makers can quickly grasp the situation and make informed choices under pressure.
These tools simplify complex processes, allowing executives to maintain situational awareness and keep the response on track without getting bogged down in technical minutiae.
Structured to outline key response phases:
-Detection
-Containment
-Eradication
-Recovery
Placemats include:
-Clear decision points
-Escalation paths
-Communication strategies
All while avoiding the technical detail that may overwhelm non-technical leaders.
With a proven track record of helping organizations navigate their most pressing challenges, we bring unparalleled expertise and dedication to every engagement. Our clients benefit from streamlined audits, reduced response times, and enhanced operational resilience. Whether strengthening your compliance program or preparing your team for a critical incident, we are committed to delivering measurable results.