DIGITAL FORENSICS & INCIDENT RESPONSE

Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) plays a significant role in an organization’s ability to proactively reduce the impact of a cyberattack. Digital Forensics and Incident Response is a specialization within forensic science that emphasizes acquiring, analyzing, and reporting on digital evidence procured from devices and networks. It also encompasses the process of identifying and addressing security events that disrupt or penetrate network resources. By evaluating the source of the threat disruption and taking prompt action to contain, eliminate, or remediate the impact, DFIR ensures the integrity and security of your digital environment against cyber threats.

Digital forensics is a critical aspect of comprehensive incident response services. It focuses on the collection, preservation, and analysis of digital evidence to reconstruct events, pinpoint root causes, and determine the scope of breaches. By thoroughly examining electronic devices, networks, and digital data footprints, experts in digital forensics and incident response can reveal vital information about cyberattacks, data breaches, and security incidents affecting your organization. The tactical use of forensic tools and methodologies helps in addressing an immediate cyber threat and strengthens your cybersecurity posture and your ability to recover from a cyberattack.

Incident response planning is a strategic and proactive measure that involves crafting a comprehensive set of written instructions to determine your organization's reaction to potential cybersecurity threats such as data breaches, data leaks, and cyberattacks. This process includes researching potential cyber risks specific to your organization and understanding how to mitigate and eliminate them within a given timeframe. Your plan should provide explicit directions for cyberattack scenarios, with the primary aim of minimizing damage, reducing the recovery time, and mitigating your overall cybersecurity risk.

Both threat intelligence and incident response are crucial for enhancing your organization's cybersecurity capabilities. Threat intelligence provides valuable insights into emerging threats, attacker behaviors, and potential vulnerabilities, enabling organizations to identify and mitigate risks before they are exploited proactively. By leveraging threat intelligence, incident response is faster and more effective, minimizing attack duration and impact.

You need an Incident Response service provider who can react quickly and efficacy. Having this immediate access to digital forensics technology and incident response expertise brings rapid control and stability to your organization when a breach occurs. How fast your organization contains, and recovers is critical to limiting business disruption, reducing costs, and recovering from reputational damage.

Our 10 Questions to Consider When Evaluating an Incident Response Provider guide can help you evaluate incident response providers and understand their incident response capabilities. The guide provides essential questions to consider when evaluating incident response service providers, offering insights into the importance of incident response, the challenges that your incident response service provider should address, and the top 10 questions to help you qualify potential incident response vendors. Download the full guide here.

When a breach occurs, our Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) service provides industry-leading protection with our 4-hour threat suppression SLA remotely delivered by our Cyber Security Investigations (CSI) team. Leveraging the best-in-class tools, our team identifies the root cause of security incidents and assesses the extent of compromised data and assets, facilitating a quick return to regular business operations. We also provide ongoing support throughout the recovery process.

eSentire Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) services can be carried out remotely. Moreover, the eSentire Agent, our proprietary digital forensics tool, enables remote rapid response so you can contain cyber threats and get back to normal business operations. Through a combination of best-in-class digital forensics technology and the expertise of our elite incident responders, our On-Demand 24/7 Incident Response service provides the fastest threat suppression in the industry, suppressing any incident, anywhere in the world, within 4 hours.

IR Readiness Service: Our IR Readiness service removes administrative barriers that typically slows down incident response. We collect, store, and leverage relevant and meaningful data about your environment, pre-deploy forensic tools necessary to accelerate the IR process, and provide clarity regarding your true level of readiness. Our expert team assesses your IR readiness plan by walking your team through the IR process, reviewing the information environment, completing administrative tasks, and providing guidance on log configuration and forensic tool deployment.

On-Demand 24/7 Service (retainer): Our On-Demand 24/7 Incident Response provides end-to-end incident management guarantees that you’re prepared for the most advanced attacks. Through a combination of best-in-class digital forensics technology and the expertise of our elite incident responders, we provide the fastest threat suppression in the industry, suppressing any incident, anywhere in the world, within 4 hours.

Emergency Incident Response service: If you are not ready to be on a retainer model, we can also provide emergency Incident Response to anyone calling into our 1-866-579-2200 phone line, if you suspect any malicious activities across your environment. Emergency IR does not guarantee a 4hr threat suppression.

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) continuous monitoring, threat detection, and response to potential security incidents. MDR providers use a combination of technology, threat intelligence, and human expertise to identify and address security threats in real-time. MDR services let you respond quickly when potential threats occur or become full blown security incident.

Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) comes into play when a security incident has occurred. It involves the systematic process of investigating and responding to security breaches. Digital forensics is the practice of collecting, analyzing, and preserving electronic evidence to understand how the breach occurred. Incident response is the coordinated effort to contain, eradicate, and recover from the security incident. DFIR helps organizations understand the extent of the breach, identify the vulnerabilities exploited, and implement measures to prevent similar incidents in the future.

There are many benefits of leveraging MDR services and DFIR services from one provider including:

Streamlined workflows: When you combine the capabilities of an elite threat hunting team, incident responders within the SOC and a specialized digital forensics and IR team, you get better, faster and more accurate containment, evidence handling, remediation and root cause analysis. Given their familiarity with your environment, logs, and security tools, your MDR team is ideally positioned to handle high-pressure evidence-handling operations. Your MDR team can turn over the cyber incident investigation to digital forensics experts that they know well and are accustomed to working with, developing streamlined processes that will serve as a force multiplier in real-world attacks.

Know who to turn to in the moment of crisis: The faster you can respond, the more likely you are to reduce damage, mitigate costs and gather valuable evidence before attackers can destroy it. A team that’s already working within your environment has a massive advantage when it comes to acting quickly.

Alleviate the burden on your team: With a comprehensive end-to-end detection and response process established across the whole of the incident lifecycle, your internal security team can focus on the areas where they’re able to contribute the most value instead of worrying about “what ifs.”

To learn more about why it’s necessary to enhance MDR services with Digital Forensics and Incident Response services, why you need to extend your MDR capabilities across the full incident lifecycle, and the benefits of combing MDR & Incident Response services, download our MDR and Incident Response eBook here.