WHO WE SERVE / POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS
BreachReady provides retained incident-response specialists with priority support 24/7 from day one of an active agreement. We then prepare with your institution’s participating teams around research, teaching, administration and campus services, respecting the systems and responsibilities within the agreed scope.
DISTRIBUTED OWNERSHIP. SHARED COORDINATION.
Central IT + leadership + advisers
WHY DFI
A centrally managed service may support many departments, while a research group or faculty operates resources with different owners and providers. A useful plan makes those relationships visible. We work with your institution to identify the participating units, clarify who can authorize action, and define how information reaches the people making institution-wide decisions.
Retained specialists and priority support 24/7 begin on day one of your active BreachReady agreement. Planning and exercises then strengthen coordination across the participating units. Forensic examination still requires source-specific authority and agreed questions; central access does not automatically extend across the institution.
WHERE WE CAN HELP
The institutional scope can be focused on selected services, units, and scenarios, then expanded by agreement.
We help central teams and service owners work through the impact on teaching, administration, and campus functions. The exercise tests how priorities are gathered, reconciled, and communicated rather than assuming every unit has the same needs.
We identify the relevant owners, partner dependencies, and available evidence sources within the agreed scope. Research leadership and advisers determine the institutional and contractual considerations; DFI explains the technical evidence and limitations.
A faculty, third-party platform, or distributed administrator sees part of the incident. We help establish the escalation route and the minimum information needed for central coordination without assuming one group can act for everyone.
THE WORK, MADE CONCRETE
The map is useful only if the owners and dependencies are real. We build it with your teams and test the unresolved handoffs.
| Institutional layer | What needs to be established | How DFI contributes |
|---|---|---|
| Central services | Identity, core platforms, response coordination and authority for shared changes. | A structured planning conversation and response decision framework. |
| Faculties and research groups | Local system owners, relevant records, operational constraints and partner dependencies. | Scoped evidence questions and defined routes into the wider response. |
| Campus operations and administration | Service impacts, essential functions, practical alternatives and communications needs. | Scenarios that connect technical events with operational decisions. |
| External providers and partners | Contractual contacts, available assistance, access boundaries and information handoffs. | Documented dependencies and an escalation process to test. |
COLLABORATION, WITH BOUNDARIES
Set priorities, address governance and legal questions, and approve decisions across the agreed institutional scope.
Explain their environments, confirm local authority, supply relevant context, and carry out approved operational changes.
Facilitates response planning and exercises, examines authorized evidence where retained, and makes gaps and limitations explicit.
We agree the scope, authority, access, reporting, and responsibilities before the work proceeds.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
We agree deliverables before work begins. The appropriate format depends on your purpose, the available evidence, and the engagement.
Your active BreachReady agreement provides priority access to incident-response support 24/7, with an agreed activation route and included hours.
The participating units, decision routes, dependencies, and responsibilities covered by the engagement.
Prompts and handoffs for scenarios that require more than one institutional team.
A practical test of authority, communication, and priority-setting across the selected participants.
Unresolved ownership, information gaps, and agreed actions to strengthen the next response.
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We can help you arrange retained response specialists, agree the participating units and bring the right teams into a practical annual readiness program.
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