Ransomware can stop your operations. Email compromise can divert your payments. A data breach can put your customers’ trust at risk. Through BreachReady, our annual preparedness and response program, we help you prepare before the pressure is real. We build your plan, rehearse decisions with your team and guide improvements throughout the year.
Know your plan, practice it together and know who to call.
THE BUSINESS IS WHAT’S AT STAKE
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.
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.
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.
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?
THE COST OF DISRUPTED OPERATING TIME
While people search for a plan, wait for authority or disagree about priorities, business disruption can continue. Put a financial value on 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.
The selected daily range, across three disrupted operating-day scenarios.
PREPARE TO LIMIT THE DAMAGE
Clear decision-makers, practical plans, rehearsed teams and coordinated specialist support help contain incidents sooner, reduce avoidable delay and keep recovery focused on what matters most.
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.
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.
EXPERIENCED PEOPLE. ORGANIZED DELIVERY.
You do not have to build and run the readiness program yourself. We develop your plan, facilitate the exercise and guide improvements, with focused input from the people who know your business.
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.
Meet the specialists behind BreachReadyINCLUDED IN EVERY LEVEL
Whichever level you choose, we lead the same core planning, practice, testing and specialist response preparation. We help your team agree its authority, use its playbooks and rehearse decisions, with the aim of limiting avoidable disruption and supporting a coordinated recovery.
ONE COMPLETE CORE PROGRAM
Every level implements these fundamental components to build and maintain cyber resilience. The differences are your prearranged service hours, penetration-testing scope and the fit for your organization.
Your included hours can support cyber incident response or any DFI digital forensics service, including employee, HR, internal and regulatory investigations.
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 planWe 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 kitWe establish your route to our incident responders and digital forensic specialists before you need it. Your program includes 24/7 priority response access and hours you can also use for our digital forensics services, under your agreed terms.
Your specialist response arrangementsWe 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 actionsWe 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 prioritiesWe 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 recordTell us what an incident could interrupt. We will help you plan the response your team needs.
Book a 10-minute intro (opens Calendly in a new tab)THE ROAD TO CYBER RESILIENCE
Our initial objective is to give your team a tailored plan, practical playbooks, agreed specialist support and experience using them together.
* The 30–60-day objective depends on agreed scope, access to information, your team’s participation and exercise scheduling. Response-Ready means the four core capabilities are complete. Testing, mitigation and ongoing improvement continue through the annual program.
Find the gaps
No core response capabilities are confirmed complete. Critical decisions and specialist activation may depend on improvisation.
Close the gaps
Some core capabilities are complete. Remaining gaps in the plan, playbooks, specialist support or rehearsal still need to close.
Ready to act
Your response plan, playbooks, specialist arrangements and tabletop are complete. Your team has a coordinated response to put into action.
30–60-day objective*
Sustain and improve
Core readiness plus completed testing, verified remediation and BEC and ransomware mitigation. Maintain it through continuing review and practice.
HOW WE GET YOU THERE
Agree the starting point
We review your critical services, current plans and response gaps with you, then agree priorities and decision owners.
Put the response in place
We build your tailored plan and playbooks, bring the essential contacts together and establish your route to specialist help.
Test the decisions together
We guide your leadership and IT team through a tabletop, helping you test decisions, identify gaps and assign improvements.
Keep improving all year
We carry the annual program forward through testing, mitigation guidance, remediation tracking and reviews with your team.
TANGIBLE WORK. VISIBLE PROGRESS.
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.
The agreed response structure
The people and specialists to call
Owners, priorities and follow-through
Visibility into your allocation
Findings and corrective actions
A continuing view of progress
We guide the reviews and help you decide what comes next.
BUILT AROUND THE TEAM YOU HAVE
We help your leadership, IT team, MSP, counsel and insurers agree how they will work together. Our specialists support the team you already have, with clear responsibilities for the response.
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 fitCHOOSE YOUR SCOPE AND CAPACITY
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
Every level implements these fundamental components to build and maintain cyber resilience. The differences are your prearranged service hours, penetration-testing scope and the fit for your organization.
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
If you have a smaller network, fewer people and endpoints, and fewer locations, we can use Essential Readiness as a starting point. It can also fit when you have cyber insurance for major incidents and want practical preparation, risk reduction and pre-arranged hours for smaller incidents.
BEST VALUE
If your mid-sized organization has a more complex network, more people or endpoints, or multiple locations, we can explore Advanced Readiness with you. Its larger allocation of pre-arranged hours may be useful when you do not already have incident-response support through cyber insurance.
THE SAME CORE PROGRAM
If disruption could have a significant effect on your operations or reputation, we can discuss Complete Readiness. It provides our most extensive standard testing scope and response capacity, suited to larger organizations seeking a greater investment in risk reduction and preparation, including those without existing cyber coverage.
Every level includes the same core program. Your tier reflects response capacity and testing scope, not how low you score on an assessment. Your written agreement confirms scope, activation, hour use, additional work and renewal.
THE TEAM BEHIND BREACHREADY
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.
Meet Tyler Hatch and DFIMAKE AN INFORMED DECISION
We explain how BreachReady fits the people, plans and commitments you already have.
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 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.
We start by looking at what your plan already does well and whether your team can use it under pressure. Then we agree the work you need: current contacts, clear authority, rehearsal, testing, specialist access and continuing review. You do not need to rebuild useful preparation simply because you join the program.
BreachReady adds risk reduction, practical preparation and pre-arranged response capacity alongside your insurance. It can support smaller incidents as well as preparation for major disruption. Coverage, insurer notification and approvals depend on your policy; we consider those arrangements with you when defining scope.
Our initial objective is to establish your core response plan, playbooks, retainer arrangements and tabletop in 30–60 days. We agree the schedule with you around scope, access to information, your team’s participation and exercise scheduling. Testing, mitigation and improvement work continue through the annual program.
DON’T LEAVE THE FIRST DECISION TO THE INCIDENT.
Tell us what an incident could interrupt and where your team needs support. We will help you understand the preparation, rehearsal and ongoing improvements that fit your business, before you need to put them into action.
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