Digital forensics · Incident response · Cyber readiness

Your response experts,
retained before a crisis.

When a cyberattack hits, you should not be searching for specialists, comparing quotes or arranging a retainer. BreachReady gives you retained incident-response experts with priority access to support 24/7 from day one of your active agreement. Our annual program builds on that foundation through practical planning, exercises, testing and ongoing improvements.

Know who to call. Prepare together. Respond with a clear plan.

Retained specialists · priority support 24/7One annual readiness programDelivered by DFI Forensics

THE BUSINESS IS WHAT’S AT STAKE

The attack creates a crisis. An unprepared response can compound it.

When your systems or information are at risk, your team also has to protect operations, make decisions and communicate with customers. We help you prepare for those business pressures, not just the technical event.

Downtime and lost revenue

Your staff may be unable to work, orders may stall and customer commitments may slip while costs continue. We help you identify recovery priorities and decision authority in advance, so uncertainty about who acts or what comes first does not add avoidable delay.

Reputation and customer trust

Your customers need reliable information when something goes wrong. We help you establish communication owners, approval routes and a process for working from confirmed facts, so your team is better prepared to communicate under pressure.

Legal exposure and difficult decisions

Your team may need to preserve evidence and address possible notification obligations or contractual questions at the same time. Email compromise can cause payment fraud or expose data even while systems remain online. We help you plan how leadership, IT and counsel will coordinate those decisions.

Who can authorize containment?
What must come back first?
Who calls your insurer and counsel?

Make those decisions
before the incident.

THE COST OF DISRUPTED OPERATING TIME

The longer work is disrupted, the more is at stake.

While people search for specialists, arrange support or work through unclear priorities, business disruption can continue. Consider the value of that time before you have to make decisions under pressure.

Choose a daily impact range in Canadian dollars. This illustration uses the selected range throughout; it does not assume a precise daily amount.

ILLUSTRATIVE SCENARIO · CANADIAN DOLLARS

What that time could mean.

The selected daily range, across three disrupted operating-day scenarios.

1 disrupted operating dayUnder C$10,000
3 disrupted operating daysUnder C$30,000
5 disrupted operating daysUnder C$50,000
Under C$10,000 per operating day × disrupted operating days. Bar lengths show duration; labels show the impact range.

PREPARE TO LIMIT THE DAMAGE

BreachReady helps reduce downtime
and financial loss.

Retained incident-response specialists and priority support 24/7 are in place from day one of your active agreement. Practical plans, clear decisions and rehearsal build on that foundation, helping reduce avoidable delay and keep recovery focused on what matters most.

Choose the daily range carefully.

Use unrecoverable contribution margin plus genuinely additional costs caused by disruption during one of your operating days. Finance and operations should validate the inputs and exclude overlapping normal payroll or overhead.

Keep the wider consequences in view.

One-time response and legal costs, payment fraud, data exposure, customer churn and longer-term confidence effects sit outside this chart.

The durations are illustrative operating-day scenarios, not predicted recovery times. This chart does not measure BreachReady performance, forecast losses or predict savings.

Find the gaps before an incident does

EXPERIENCED PEOPLE. ORGANIZED DELIVERY.

DFI does the heavy lifting so you can focus on running your business.

Your retained response specialists are available with priority access 24/7 from day one of your active agreement. We also lead the annual preparation: developing your plan, facilitating exercises and guiding improvements with focused input from the people who know your business.

Bring experience into the response.

Our responders and forensic specialists help you establish what happened, preserve available evidence and make informed containment and recovery decisions within the agreed scope. We explain the findings so your leadership, IT team, counsel, insurers and communications advisers can coordinate their work.

Your team contributes business context, key decisions and focused participation. Leadership retains authority; your IT team or provider carries out agreed technical work.

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INCLUDED IN EVERY LEVEL

One complete program. A stronger response.

Every level begins with retained incident-response specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one of your active agreement. We then build and rehearse your response plan, test agreed systems and guide improvements, helping your team limit avoidable disruption and recover in a structured way.

ONE COMPLETE CORE PROGRAM

Included at every implementation level

Every active agreement begins with retained specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one. The same annual preparation follows at every level; included hours and testing scope vary to fit your organization.

  • Retained specialists with priority support 24/7
  • Tailored incident response plan
  • Cyber incident playbooks
  • Facilitated tabletop exercise
  • Annual scoped penetration testing
  • BEC and ransomware mitigation guidance
  • Response kit and essential contacts
  • Client portal, monthly reporting, threat intelligence and annual review

Your included hours can support cyber incident response or any DFI digital forensics service, including employee, HR, internal and regulatory investigations.

01

Your specialists, retained from day one.

From day one of your active BreachReady agreement, you have retained incident-response specialists with priority access to support 24/7. You know who to call, with response and forensic hours available under your agreed terms.

Your retained response specialists
02

Know who leads and what comes first.

We build your incident response plan around the way your organization works, so your team knows who can decide, who to contact and which systems and services need attention first.

Your incident response plan
03

Have guidance for the incident you face.

We turn your response plan into practical playbooks for ransomware, business email compromise, data breaches and other incidents. Your team can find the relevant decisions, contacts and response information together.

Your playbooks and response kit
04

Practice before the pressure is real.

We guide your leadership and technical teams through a realistic incident. Together, we test the decisions your plan depends on, identify gaps and agree who will address them.

Your tabletop and improvement actions
05

Turn weaknesses into action.

We connect your annual penetration-test findings with BEC and ransomware mitigation guidance, helping your IT team prioritize improvements and track the corrective work.

Your testing and mitigation priorities
06

See what is ready and what needs work.

We keep your plans, milestones, response-hour usage and outstanding actions visible in your client portal. Monthly reporting, threat intelligence, plan reviews and an annual readiness review help you see what has changed and what needs attention.

Your shared readiness record

Tell us what your business needs to protect. We will help you put the right response relationship and preparation in place.

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THE ROAD TO RESILIENCE

Expert support from day one.
Stronger readiness over time.

With your retained response relationship in place, we work toward an initial 30–60-day objective for your core response plan, playbooks and tabletop exercise. Testing and continuing improvements carry the preparation forward through the year.

* The 30–60-day objective concerns preparation milestones, not the start of retained support. Timing depends on scope, information access, participation and exercise scheduling. Response-Ready means the four core capabilities are complete; testing and ongoing improvement continue through the annual program.

  1. Uncertainty when it matters

    At Risk

    When an incident hits, your organization faces uncertainty without specialist guidance already arranged. An improvised response can prolong disruption, increase costs and put client confidence at risk.

  2. Greater clarity, gaps remain

    Developing

    Your organization is building a more prepared response, with access to specialist guidance providing greater clarity when it matters. Gaps remain, but you are better positioned to limit confusion and avoidable delay.

  3. A coordinated response, practised

    Response-Ready

    Your organization is prepared for a coordinated, expert-led response, with specialists at your side and a team that has practised what to do. That preparation supports faster action, less disruption and a more confident recovery.

    30–60-day objective*
  4. Preparedness sustained over time

    Resilient

    Your organization combines a practised, expert-led response with measures that reduce exposure to common cyber threats. BreachReady helps maintain that readiness over time, protecting business continuity and the confidence others place in you.

HOW WE GET YOU THERE

Build the response. Rehearse it. Keep improving.

Find your starting point
  1. 01

    Agree the starting point

    Assess

    With retained support available from day one of your active agreement, we review your business, confirm your team understands the activation arrangements and agree preparation priorities.

  2. 02

    Put the response in place

    Build

    We develop your tailored plan and playbooks, organize essential contacts and help your team practice using the specialist support already in place.

  3. 03

    Test the decisions together

    Rehearse

    We guide your leadership and IT team through a tabletop, helping you test decisions, identify gaps and assign improvements.

  4. 04

    Keep improving all year

    Maintain

    We carry the annual program forward through testing, mitigation guidance, remediation tracking and reviews with your team.

TANGIBLE WORK. VISIBLE PROGRESS.

A clear view of the work. Less work keeping track.

We carry the readiness work forward and bring your plans, progress and next actions together in your client portal. You can see what is ready, what is still open and where your team’s input is needed.

  • Your retained specialists and agreed activation contacts
  • Plans and playbooks your team can find
  • Clear owners for the work still to do
  • Monthly reporting and threat guidance
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YOUR CLIENT PORTAL

One shared readiness record.

Retained response specialists

Your agreed route to priority support 24/7

Plans & playbooks

The agreed response structure

Milestones & actions

Owners, priorities and follow-through

Response-hour usage

Visibility into your allocation

Testing & remediation

Findings and corrective actions

Monthly reports

A continuing view of progress

We guide the reviews and help you decide what comes next.

BUILT AROUND THE TEAM YOU HAVE

Your IT team keeps running the business. We help prepare it for an incident.

We add retained incident-response expertise alongside your existing team, with priority access 24/7 from day one of an active agreement. Together, we prepare the decisions, recovery priorities and coordination your leadership, IT team, MSP and advisers may need.

A strong fit when you need to:

  • Have retained specialists ready before an emergency
  • Protect continuity across critical business services
  • Give leadership clear decisions and responsibilities
  • Test a plan that has never been rehearsed

We work with businesses, professional organizations, municipalities and education institutions. We shape the scope around your systems, the services you depend on and the people who will respond.

Explore organizational fit

CHOOSE YOUR SCOPE AND CAPACITY

Choose your implementation level

We help you choose a level by considering your network, people, locations and business exposure, alongside your insurance arrangements and the response capacity you want in place. The options below are starting points for that conversation, not a substitute for agreeing your scope.

ONE COMPLETE CORE PROGRAM

Included at every implementation level

Every active agreement begins with retained specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one. The same annual preparation follows at every level; included hours and testing scope vary to fit your organization.

  • Retained specialists with priority support 24/7
  • Tailored incident response plan
  • Cyber incident playbooks
  • Facilitated tabletop exercise
  • Annual scoped penetration testing
  • BEC and ransomware mitigation guidance
  • Response kit and essential contacts
  • Client portal, monthly reporting, threat intelligence and annual review

Your included hours can support cyber incident response or any DFI digital forensics service, including employee, HR, internal and regulatory investigations.

THE SAME CORE PROGRAM

Essential Readiness

Retained specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one of your active agreement. A starting point for smaller networks, fewer people and locations, with 20 included response and forensic hours and annual testing of up to 50 IPs.

Included response & forensic hours
20 hours
Annual penetration testing
Up to 50 IPs
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EXPANDED CAPACITY

Advanced Readiness

Retained specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one of your active agreement. More capacity for a growing or more complex organization: 60 included response and forensic hours and annual testing of up to 100 IPs.

Included response & forensic hours
60 hours
Annual penetration testing
Up to 100 IPs
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THE SAME CORE PROGRAM

Complete Readiness

Retained specialists and priority support 24/7 from day one of your active agreement. Our largest standard allocation: 100 included response and forensic hours and annual testing of up to 200 IPs, for organizations seeking greater response capacity.

Included response & forensic hours
100 hours
Annual penetration testing
Up to 200 IPs
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Every active BreachReady agreement includes retained incident-response specialists and priority access to support 24/7 from day one. Levels differ in service hours and testing scope, not the start of support or how low you score on an assessment. Your written agreement confirms scope, activation, hour use, additional work and renewal.

THE TEAM BEHIND BREACHREADY

Forensic discipline.
Business perspective.

BreachReady is delivered by DFI Forensics. Founder Tyler Hatch is a digital forensics practitioner and former civil litigation lawyer specializing in commercial disputes. He founded DFI in 2018.

We bring that perspective to your program, connecting technical findings with the decisions your leadership, IT team and advisers need to make.

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MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION

Your questions. Clear answers.

We explain how BreachReady fits the people, plans and commitments you already have.

All program questions
What is BreachReady?

BreachReady is our annual cyber readiness and response program. From day one of your active agreement, you have retained incident-response specialists with priority access to support 24/7. We build on that foundation through practical planning, exercises, scoped testing and ongoing improvements with your team.

Do we have to become Response-Ready before we can call for help?

No. Retained incident-response specialists and priority access to support 24/7 are in place from day one of your active BreachReady agreement. Your readiness level describes preparation, not when support becomes available. Taking the free assessment or requesting a report does not activate an agreement.

What does priority access 24/7 mean?

Your active agreement gives you priority access to retained incident-response specialists at any time. Your written response arrangements explain how to activate support and confirm response commitments, included hours and how additional work is approved.

What if we don’t have a cyber incident? What can we use our hours for?

You can choose to use your included hours toward any digital forensics service DFI provides, as well as cyber incident response. That includes employee and HR investigations, internal investigations and regulatory investigations.

We already have IT support or an MSP. Why add BreachReady?

We work alongside the people who already know your systems. DFI provides specialist incident response, forensic investigation and readiness support; your IT team or MSP implements agreed technical changes and restoration, and your leadership retains business decisions.

DON’T LEAVE THE FIRST DECISION TO THE INCIDENT.

Put your response experts
in place now.

Arrange retained incident-response specialists before a crisis, with priority access to support 24/7 from day one of your active agreement. We will help you choose the annual program that fits your business, then build and rehearse the preparation with your team.

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