Incident Response Readiness Assessment: Can Your Team Handle a Breach?

An incident response readiness assessment evaluates whether your organisation can effectively detect, contain, investigate, and recover from a security incident. It covers: detection capability (can your monitoring detect the attack techniques relevant to your environment?), response procedures (are playbooks documented, current, and tested?), team readiness (does your team know their roles during an incident? have they practiced?), communication procedures (internal escalation, external notification, legal, PR), evidence preservation (can your team collect and preserve forensic evidence?), and recovery capability (can you restore operations from backups? have you tested it?). Tabletop exercises — walking through a realistic scenario with your team — reveal gaps that policy documents alone cannot expose.