DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS

Incident
Response

Breach or suspected compromise? A senior responder on the line fast — contain, investigate, and recover, without a six-figure retainer commitment. Available as a standing retainer or activated on demand when an alert turns into a confirmed compromise.

Structured response when speed and evidence both matter

During an active incident, decisions made in the first hours shape the outcome. ShadowCore’s incident response service joins the engagement quickly, stabilizes the environment, and runs a coordinated containment and investigation workflow that preserves evidence while reducing business impact.

Engagements cover endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and SaaS estates, with forensic timeline reconstruction, indicator extraction, and root-cause analysis. Containment actions are agreed with your team rather than imposed, so business-critical systems stay protected even while attacker access is removed and persistence is rooted out.

Post-incident, the engagement closes with a structured handover: a written incident report suitable for executives and regulators, IOCs and detection rules for your SOC, and a hardening plan that improves resilience against the same attack path. Retainer clients receive faster activation, preserved context across engagements, and pre-agreed rules of engagement.

Engagement snapshot

What an incident response engagement looks like

Activation

Single point of contact, triage call within one hour of engagement. Available as a retainer or on-demand response.

  • Retainer
  • On-demand

Coverage

Cloud workloads, endpoints, network traffic, identity, and SaaS — investigation scoped to the affected estate, not pre-fixed templates.

  • Cloud
  • Endpoint
  • Network

Containment & investigation

Guided containment to stop active damage, forensic timeline reconstruction, root-cause identification, and attacker-action mapping.

Deliverables

IoCs, executive incident report, technical findings, recovery checklist, and post-incident hardening plan — handed off in a usable format.

Services

Response Capabilities

Practical incident handling from first alert through recovery.

Rapid Triage

Initial severity assessment, evidence preservation, stakeholder alignment, and immediate containment planning.

Containment & Eradication

Guided response actions to isolate compromised systems, remove persistence, and reduce blast radius.

Forensic Investigation

Timeline reconstruction, log analysis, endpoint evidence review, and root-cause identification.

Threat Actor Analysis

Mapping observed behavior to tactics, techniques, infrastructure, and likely adversary objectives.

Recovery Guidance

Hardening actions, credential reset plans, monitoring recommendations, and return-to-service validation.

Executive Reporting

Clear incident summaries, impact assessment, evidence-backed conclusions, and follow-up remediation roadmap.

Process

Response Workflow

A structured process for containment, investigation, and business recovery.

01

Intake

Collect incident context, affected assets, available logs, and business constraints.

02

Triage

Assess severity, active risk, scope, and the first containment decisions.

03

Contain

Stabilize the environment while preserving evidence for investigation.

04

Investigate

Build a timeline, identify root cause, and document attacker actions.

05

Recover

Support remediation, monitoring, executive reporting, and lessons learned.

Who it is for

When to call incident response

  • Organizations facing an active or suspected compromise — ransomware, business email compromise, data exfiltration, or insider activity.
  • Security and IT leaders who need an experienced second team during high-pressure incidents, with clear roles and decision support.
  • Companies that want a retainer in place so the response clock starts at notification, not at contract negotiation.
  • Regulated entities with strict notification windows (GDPR 72-hour, NIS2, DORA) that need defensible evidence and timelines.
Typical outcomes

What an engagement leaves behind

  • Active threats contained, attacker access removed, and the environment returned to a verified clean state.
  • A reconstructed incident timeline with affected systems, data, identities, and attacker actions documented.
  • Indicators of compromise, detection rules, and lessons-learned input to strengthen monitoring after recovery.
  • Executive and regulator-ready reports with impact assessment, root cause, and remediation roadmap.