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CONSULTING/INCIDENT RESPONSE

HANDS-ON ENGAGEMENT

The alert is the end of the story. We investigate the beginning.

By the time ransomware detonates, the intrusion is weeks old. Our response process is built around one addition to the standard playbook: investigation that keeps going until the whole intrusion is understood.

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PROACTIVE + POST-INCIDENTFORENSICS-DEEP

The difference

Six phases end the incident. The seventh ends the intrusion.

STANDARD 6-PHASE IR · NIST · SANS · ISO

Preparation→ Identification→ Containment→ Eradication→ Recovery→ Lessons learned

h00dies 7-PHASE IR · INVESTIGATION ADDED — RUN RECURSIVELY

Preparation→ Identification→ Investigation ⟲→ Containment→ Eradication→ Recovery→ Lessons learned

Investigation is not a step you pass through once. Every new artifact — a credential, a beacon, a lateral hop — sends the investigation back through the evidence until no unexplained activity remains. Containment that skips this step contains the wrong thing.

Two tracks

Before the incident, and after it.

PROACTIVE IR

Hunt before the alert

Pre-incident threat hunting across your environment — suspicious behavior and hidden footholds identified early, shortening attacker dwell time before anything detonates.

POST IR

Respond when it happens

Emergency investigation, containment of spread, eradication of the attacker's access, and recovery — run as one continuous engagement, not four hand-offs.

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Case in point

AKIRA ransomware: the attack was underway long before the ransomware appeared.

The encryption event is the last step of a multi-stage intrusion, not the first. A response that only removes the ransomware leaves the access that delivered it — which is why our investigation runs the timeline backward before we call anything contained.

AKIRA — TYPICAL INTRUSION TIMELINE

WEEKS BEFORE

Initial access — VPN appliances without MFA, or valid stolen credentials

DAYS OF QUIET WORK

Credential harvesting and privilege escalation — living off legitimate tools

SPREADING

Lateral movement to backups and file servers; defenses quietly disabled

EXFILTRATION

Data staged and exfiltrated for double extortion — before any alarm

DETONATION — THE FIRST THING YOU SEE

Encryption fires. The visible incident begins; the intrusion is already weeks old.

Shorten the dwell time —
or shorten the incident. Ideally both.