Incident Response Planning
Build the capability to contain an attack before it happens.
Get a quoteA structured engagement to build your incident response plan, operational playbooks, communication templates, and tabletop exercise programme — so your team knows exactly what to do when an attack occurs, not when it is already in progress.
Most organisations discover during an incident that they have no plan. Under pressure, with systems failing and funds at risk, an ad hoc response is slower, less coordinated, and more likely to make the situation worse. Deep Guard's Incident Response Planning service follows the NIST SP 800-61 framework to produce a complete, practical IR capability: a formal plan, scenario-specific playbooks, communication and escalation templates, recovery runbooks, and a tested tabletop exercise programme. The output is not a document — it is a practised capability your team can execute under pressure.
Our process, step by step.
Every engagement follows a structured methodology. No steps are skipped. No shortcuts are taken.
IR Programme Assessment
We assess your current incident response capability against NIST SP 800-61 — identifying gaps in preparation, detection, analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident activity.
Incident Classification Framework
We define your incident severity levels, classification criteria, and escalation thresholds — establishing a shared language across engineering, security, legal, and executive stakeholders before an incident occurs.
Incident Response Plan
We produce a tailored IR plan covering the full lifecycle: preparation, detection and analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review — mapped to your specific technology stack, team structure, and regulatory obligations.
Playbook Development
We write scenario-specific operational playbooks for the incident types most relevant to your organisation — including smart contract exploit, bridge drain, governance attack, credential compromise, data breach, and infrastructure compromise.
Communication and Legal Preparation
We develop communication templates for customers, board, regulators, and press — and define notification timelines for applicable regulatory reporting obligations before an incident forces the question.
Tabletop Exercise
We facilitate a structured tabletop exercise against one or more realistic scenarios, testing the plan and playbooks against your actual team and processes — identifying gaps before a real incident does.
Incident Response Plan
A complete, approved IR plan following NIST SP 800-61 — ready to execute, not just to file.
Operational playbooks
Scenario-specific step-by-step response guides for the incident types your organisation is most likely to face.
Communication templates
Pre-drafted customer, board, regulator, and press communications — reviewed for legal and regulatory compliance before they are needed under pressure.
Tabletop exercise report
Documented findings and gaps from the tabletop exercise, with an improvement plan feeding directly back into the IR plan.
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