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title: "Incident Response & Digital Forensics Support"
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Incident Response & Digital Forensics

# Contain the incident and preserve what you need to understand it.

During a suspected breach, an improvised fix can destroy the evidence needed to explain what happened. We support a controlled technical response: establish the facts available, contain the agreed threat, preserve relevant evidence and verify the path back to operation.

THE ENGAGEMENT

## Preserve the facts. Control the change. Verify recovery.

1. **Establish the situation** Confirm authority, available evidence, affected services and immediate constraints.
2. **Contain and investigate** Coordinate approved actions while recording evidence and uncertainty.
3. **Recover and learn** Verify restoration, document findings and assign follow-up work.

DIRECT ANSWER

Wavect supports scoped incident response and digital investigation, including triage, containment planning, evidence preservation, technical analysis and recovery verification. Access, decision authority, availability and the roles of legal or specialist advisers are agreed for the incident.

Best for

- Organizations investigating suspected compromise of their software or cloud systems
- Teams preparing an incident playbook and evidence-preservation process

Consider another approach

- An assumption of immediate response without a confirmed engagement

## Identify decisions that cannot wait and facts that are missing

Confirm the incident lead, system owners and the authority to isolate services or revoke access. Build an initial timeline from available observations and distinguish confirmed facts from hypotheses. Your existing emergency contacts remain the first route until our availability and role are confirmed. The engagement does not create an always-on hotline or assume control over third-party systems.

## Preserve relevant records before changing the environment

Agree what evidence is needed and how it can be collected without unnecessary exposure of personal or confidential data. Record source, time, collector, transformations and access history. Where relevant, preserve logs, configuration and system snapshots with integrity checks. Retention and transfer follow the agreed process; specialist forensic handling can be identified where the situation requires it.

## Make the impact of each action explicit

Isolation, access revocation, key rotation and service shutdown can affect customers and evidence. We recommend bounded actions, obtain the agreed approval and record the change. Coordinating responders need a shared communication path and clear ownership. [Managed Cloud Operations](/services/managed-cloud-operations/) can supply separately contracted ongoing response coverage; this engagement addresses the specific incident or preparedness exercise.

## Illustrative rehearsal: a compromised identity is contained

In a tabletop or test environment, an account is assumed compromised. The team checks its permissions, preserves relevant access records, approves revocation and verifies that legitimate service access can be restored through a clean identity. The timeline records decisions and unresolved questions. This is a preparation scenario, not a claim that a breach occurred or that attribution is certain.

## Restore a service with a reason to trust it

Recovery criteria address the known entry path, affected data and the condition of backups or rebuilt systems. Test access, important transactions and monitoring before returning agreed traffic. A restored process is not proof that every risk has disappeared. Follow-up hardening belongs to [Cloud Security](/services/cloud-security/) and targeted verification may use [Application Penetration Testing](/services/penetration-testing/).

## Keep technical findings separate from legal conclusions

Deliver a timeline, evidence inventory, observed impact, actions taken, limitations and prioritized follow-up work. Your legal, privacy and insurance advisers own reporting obligations and formal notifications. We do not promise attacker attribution or courtroom admissibility. The closeout names owners for unresolved questions, evidence retention and the next response rehearsal so the work remains usable after the immediate incident.

## Questions before you start

### Is this an emergency response hotline?

No. Availability, secure communication and acceptance of the incident must be confirmed. Use your established emergency escalation while that is unresolved.

### Can you prove who attacked us?

Attribution may remain uncertain. We report what the available evidence supports and keep hypotheses clearly separate from confirmed observations.

### Will you notify regulators or affected customers?

Those decisions and communications belong to your authorized legal and privacy owners. We can provide technical evidence for their assessment.

### Can we prepare before anything happens?

Yes. A scoped readiness engagement can establish runbooks, evidence collection, roles and a rehearsal using a relevant incident scenario.

## Choose your next step

- [Reduce recurring infrastructure risks](/services/cloud-security/)
- [Verify an application attack boundary](/services/penetration-testing/)
- [Agree ongoing monitoring and response](/services/managed-cloud-operations/)

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