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Incident Response Planning

Strengthen cyber incident readiness with incident response planning that helps your teams respond quickly while supporting compliance obligations.

The Benefits of Planning

Our team helps enterprise organizations assess cyber risk exposure and build incident response programs that connect security operations to these benefits:

  • Rapid response: Cybersecurity incidents can affect any organization, and complex environments often face greater exposure from ransomware, credential theft, vendor risk, and regulatory scrutiny. Planning identifies potential risks and develops incident response (IR) programs to support rapid and coordinated responses. 
  • Risk mitigation: The right cyber incident response plan can help your organization reduce downtime, protect critical operations, and support regulatory response requirements after a cyber incident.
  • Clarity: CBIZ Technology’s incident response planning services define roles and create actionable playbooks, so your teams can be more confident in identifying cyber incidents and responding to them. 

Our IR Planning Services

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We evaluate your current cybersecurity resilience and help you design plans that define roles within your team. Through incident response managed services, our team helps define the processes, responsibilities, and escalation paths your organization needs to detect, contain, eradicate, and recover from cybersecurity incidents.

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Implementation

CBIZ Technology creates executable playbooks and establishes clear escalation paths. We help translate your plan into clear responsibilities, training needs, and escalation steps so your team knows how to act when a cyber incident occurs.

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Maintenance

An effective IR plan needs regular review as your business structure, regulatory obligations, and cybersecurity threat landscape change. Our teams can help you determine how often you need to re-test and re-evaluate your plan to keep it current.

Why Choose CBIZ Technology for Your IR Planning?

When you need an incident response service provider, CBIZ Technology brings together strategic planning, regulatory experience, and technical response capabilities. We offer:

  • Integrated planning: Instead of siloed cybersecurity incident response services, we connect your IR plan to governance, compliance, security operations, and recovery priorities. We also offer additional cybersecurity services, AI strategy, and digital forensics services to create holistic, enterprise-level plans.
  • Regulatory experience: We use our experience to account for incident reporting considerations tied to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Form 8-K requirements and developing Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) rules, helping your organization prepare response plans that support compliance from the start.
  • Ongoing support: Our incident response managed services can extend beyond planning with 24/7 data breach support and recovery services for organizations that need continued response guidance.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the NIST incident response lifecycle and how does it fit into IR programs?

The NIST incident response lifecycle is a model that connects incident response to everyday cybersecurity risk management. Its CSF 2.0-based model helps organizations plan for cyber incidents, detect and respond to threats, recover affected systems, and improve response processes over time.

What does my organization need to know about the NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3 and the CSF 2.0 framework?

NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3 provides incident response recommendations using the CSF 2.0 framework. Together, they help organizations connect IR planning to governance, risk management, detection, response, recovery, and continuous improvement. Our approach aligns with these resources to help you build a more coordinated, compliance-conscious response program.

    Does artificial intelligence (AI) change IR planning?

    AI should be part of IR planning because it can affect both sides of incident response, from detection and triage workflows to new threat vectors and incident scenarios.

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