Security & Compliance
Decide It Now, Not at 2 A.m.
Readiness is the cheap half of incident response: the plan, the roles, the notification clocks, the tabletop that finds the gaps while nothing is burning. We build that, and we’re there if the day comes.
The problem
The Plan Nobody Has Read Is Not a Plan
Most organizations have an incident response document. Fewer have one that names the person who decides to notify, the counsel who gets called first, the threshold that makes something reportable, or where the backups are proven to restore from.
In a regulated business the clock starts before you understand what happened. HIPAA, state breach statutes, contractual obligations, cyber insurance conditions, and the SEC’s disclosure rules for public filers each carry their own timing and their own audience. Working that out live is how a manageable incident becomes a reportable failure.
How we help
Prepare, Exercise, Respond, Learn
Plan and Playbooks
An incident response plan people can follow under pressure, with playbooks for the scenarios you’re actually exposed to.
Roles and Escalation
Who decides, who speaks, who calls counsel and the carrier, and the authority each of them holds.
Notification Analysis
Your obligations mapped in advance: regulator, customer, partner, insurer, and the clock on each.
Tabletop Exercises
Facilitated, adversarial, and specific to your environment, including an AI-related scenario, which most plans don’t cover.
Response Support
Coordination, technical direction, and evidence discipline when something is live, alongside your counsel and forensics.
After-Action
The lessons written down and turned into controls, which is the only part that reduces the next incident.
IR plan and playbooks · roles, RACI, and escalation · notification and regulatory obligation mapping · tabletop and functional exercises · retainer-based response support · forensics and counsel coordination · post-incident review · resilience and recovery validation
What you get
A Plan That Has Been Tested
- An IR plan and scenario playbooks, current and owned
- A notification decision tree with the clocks on it
- Exercise findings, and the fixes tracked to closure
- Contact trees for counsel, carrier, forensics, and key customers
- A team that has practiced the first hour before living it
Fourteen years, 1,000+ engagements, and a 100% breach-free record across active vCISO and preventative consulting engagements, the strongest argument we can make for spending on readiness rather than response.
The Work Stays Proven after We Hand It Over
The CyRisk platform keeps the plan, the exercise record, and the remediation items live, so the plan on the shelf is the plan in force.
CyRisk is 4A’s sister platform. Where our work for CyRisk appears on this site, we disclose the affiliation.