Incident Response Planning & Advisory Services

Incident response planning is the process of defining exactly how your organization detects, contains, communicates, and recovers from a cyber incident before one occurs. Without a tested plan, teams improvise under pressure—leading to delayed containment, evidence loss, regulatory exposure, and avoidable downtime. A well-built plan gives every stakeholder a defined role and a clear escalation path from the first alert to executive decision-making.

A tabletop exercise is a structured, scenario-driven discussion where your security, legal, operations, and executive teams work through a simulated cyber incident together. It exposes gaps in roles, communication, and decision-making without the pressure of a real event. Tabletops are one of the fastest ways to identify what your current plan gets wrong—and build the cross-functional alignment that makes real incidents recoverable.

Most consulting firms deliver frameworks and slide decks. This advisory service produces executable plans with named owners, tested through realistic exercises, and translated into board-ready language your directors and auditors can actually use. Tyson Martin brings enterprise CISO-level judgment from organizations like AWS and Home Depot—not a junior consultant following a methodology.

An initial incident response plan can typically be developed within 30 to 45 days, depending on organizational complexity and the maturity of existing documentation. This includes a current state assessment, plan drafting, stakeholder review, and an initial tabletop exercise. Ongoing refinement and annual updates are recommended as your environment and threat landscape evolve.

An incident readiness assessment evaluates your current IR plan quality, team role clarity, escalation thresholds, backup and restore capabilities, communication protocols, and board reporting readiness. You receive a gap analysis with prioritized findings, a risk-ranked action list, and a 90-day remediation roadmap with named owners and measurable outcomes—so you know exactly where you stand and what to fix first.

Board-level incident readiness reporting focuses on business impact—downtime tolerance, revenue exposure, disclosure obligations, and vendor dependencies—rather than technical controls. Every deliverable is designed to enable informed board decisions during an incident, not just satisfy a compliance checkbox. This means one-page briefing templates, clear escalation triggers, and decision rights defined before a crisis forces improvisation.

Yes. Incident readiness decays as teams change, technology evolves, and new threats emerge. Ongoing retainer support is available to keep plans current, run annual tabletop exercises, review changes in your environment, and provide on-call advisory support when real incidents or near-misses require senior guidance. Readiness is maintained through continuous practice, not a one-time document.

Organizations with the most to gain are those in regulated industries (financial services, retail, healthcare), enterprises undergoing leadership transitions or M&A activity, companies that have experienced a recent incident or audit finding, and boards that have been asked by regulators or insurers to demonstrate cyber preparedness. Any organization where downtime, data loss, or disclosure would have meaningful business consequences needs a tested plan.