The Incident Response Readiness & Maturity Assessment is a structured evaluation process that helps you to benchmark the current state of their incident response capabilities. Why is this important?
By evaluating your incident response processes, tools, and personnel, we identify gaps and weaknesses that need to be addressed. The analysis allows to identify improvement capabilities to increase your overall security posture.
Incident response is crucial for gaining real-time visibility into ongoing attacks, understanding threat actors’ tactics and techniques, and making informed decisions to contain and eliminate threats. By assessing your maturity level, you can develop tailored strategies to improve response times and minimize the impact of cyber incidents.
We analyze the collected data to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. The findings are then mapped to a maturity model to guide your progress. We prioritize and highlight areas that require immediate attention to help you use your resources as best as possible.
The comprehensive assessment supports your organization to comply with regulatory requirements and standards, helping you avoid potential fines and penalties.
Regular assessments and continuous improvements in incident response foster a culture of ongoing enhancement. This strengthens your resilience against evolving cyber threats, building confidence among stakeholders, including customers, partners, and investors.
Our assessment utilizes the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Capability Maturity Model (C|P-CMM) to evaluate the maturity levels of various practices within each phase. Maturity levels are rated on a scale from 0 to 5, defined as follows:
The following spider chart shows as an example how the results for Phase 2 -Respond are visualized:
Our assessment follows three key phases: Prepare, Respond, and Maintain & Optimize. Each phase is crafted to evaluate and enhance various aspects of your organization’s incident response capabilities.
This phase establishes a solid foundation for incident response by identifying critical assets, developing a communication plan, defining information exchange interfaces, managing dependencies, and training personnel. The goal is to ensure you are well-prepared to handle incidents with clear processes, roles, and responsibilities.
In this phase, we assess your ability to detect, identify, and declare incidents. We also evaluate incident investigation and analysis, containment and eradication capabilities, evidence handling, and stakeholder communication. The goal is to ensure you can respond quickly and effectively to minimize damage and prevent further spread of incidents.
The final phase focuses on post-incident activities and continuous improvement. It includes conducting post-incident reviews, testing incident handling processes, identifying lessons learned, and updating response strategies, controls, and processes. The aim is to enhance your resilience and readiness for future incidents by learning from past experiences and continuously improving incident management capabilities.
The following illustration shows all incident response practices of the assessment per phase:
Through this assessment, we provide a comprehensive evaluation and tailored improvement plans grounded in established standards and baseVISION’s cybersecurity expertise. By actively involving your key members, the assessment delivers credible insights, enhances your cyber resilience, and prepares you to effectively manage future cyber incidents.
Interested? Don’t hesitate to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you.
Thomas Reichmuth
Head of SOC
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