Incident Response
A rehearsed capability, ready before the breach.
When a breach happens, hours matter and improvisation costs. Ashenden's incident response is a rehearsed capability held on retainer: the moment something is wrong, a team that already knows your environment moves to contain it, understand it, and get you back, under one line of command.
We handle the technical fight, containment, forensics, eradication and recovery, and coordinate it with the human one: legal, communications, and, where an incident crosses into the physical, protection. Because a modern breach rarely stays in one domain.
Afterward you get more than a system back: a clear, evidenced account of what happened, what was reached, and what has changed so it is less likely to recur.
Held to one standard, end to end.
Rapid containment
The bleeding stopped fast, by people who know your environment.
Forensics & investigation
What happened, what was reached, and how: evidenced.
Eradication & recovery
The adversary removed and operations restored, cleanly.
One line of command
Technical, legal, comms and physical response, coordinated.
Rehearsed readiness
Playbooks and tabletop drills before the real thing.
Board-grade after-action
A defensible account of the incident and the changes made.
- Organisations that cannot afford a slow response
- Boards seeking rehearsed readiness
- Regulated firms with reporting duties
- Managed-defence and CSO clients
- Do we need to be an existing client to call you in a breach?
- No, but preparation is everything. On retainer we already know your environment and hold your playbooks, so response begins in minutes rather than starting cold mid-incident.
- Do you coordinate with legal and communications?
- Yes. A breach is rarely only technical; we run the response under one command that includes legal, communications and, where needed, physical protection, so nothing is handled in isolation.
- What do we get after the incident?
- Systems recovered, and a clear, evidenced account of what happened and what has changed: the kind a board, regulator or insurer can rely on.
Speak to us, in confidence.
Tell us what you are weighing up. The first conversation is private and unhurried, with the people who would actually hold the work, not a sales desk.