Incident response is not one event. It is the work done quietly before anything goes wrong, plus the work done in plain sight when it does. Most vendors sell you only one half. Hoplon covers both so the boundary doesn't become a gap an attacker can use.
The work done before the alarm: written response plans, rehearsed playbooks, tabletop exercises, and technical checks that prove your team can actually execute under pressure. This is the part that routinely gets skipped because nothing has gone wrong yet which is exactly why it matters.
The work done during and after a live incident: containment, forensic investigation, threat eradication, system rebuilding, and the unglamorous job of restoring operations. Without rehearsed readiness, response becomes improvised; without disciplined recovery, the same attacker walks straight back in.
Skipping readiness doesn't keep an incident from happening it just makes the one that does happen cost more, last longer, and leave a worse paper trail. Each gap below routinely turns a one-day incident into a multi-week crisis.
Documented response plans that have never been rehearsed look reassuring in audits and collapse the moment a real attacker forces decisions in real time.
The first 24 hours decide how much an incident costs. Confusion about who decides what stretches contained incidents into multi-week crises.
Most engagements quietly stop at containment. Companies are then handed a half-rebuilt environment and asked to restore operations themselves.
GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and most cyber-insurance policies now require evidence of tested response capability. Without it, fines rise and claims get denied.
Hoplon delivers Incident Readiness through a four-stage engagement refined across hundreds of live responses. Each stage produces an artifact your team keeps and a capability your team owns long after we step away.
We map your crown-jewel assets, applicable regulations, and most credible threat actors then prioritize the gaps that would cause the most damage if left alone.
Scenario-driven workshops put executives, operations, and technical responders in the same room and surface coordination failures safely, before a real attacker does.
Hands-on, high-fidelity exercises including ransomware and threat-led intrusion that stress-test detection, response, and recovery under realistic load.
You receive a written assessment, a prioritized remediation roadmap, and updated playbooks clearly stating what worked, what didn't, and what to fix first.
Coverage isn't a single product. It's a set of modules you combine to match your starting point. Pick the pieces you need today, or wrap them in a retainer for the day you need everything at once.
We build your IR plan from scratch through structured workshops that capture your real infrastructure, escalation paths, and regulatory obligations. No templates, no copy-paste from another industry.
We audit your existing IR plan and playbooks against current best practice and your evolving threat context, then mark exactly where they would fail in a live incident.
Board-level and operational scenarios run by experienced facilitators, covering ransomware, supply-chain compromise, and insider-threat playbooks. Your team rehearses; you keep the recordings.
We evaluate your logging, identity, detection, and recovery technology against the requirements of a credible intrusion and tell you, plainly, what would actually happen during one.
A single hotline number reaches a Hoplon responder, not a triage queue. We lead containment and investigation alongside your team, with forensics, legal coordination, and crisis communications in step.
Active Directory rebuilding, endpoint reimaging, backup validation, network re-segmentation, and post-incident hardening until the door the attacker used is permanently shut.
Most providers sell only the phase they're good at. Cutting the chain anywhere readiness, response, recovery lengthens the others. Hoplon stays with you from the first tabletop through the last hardened endpoint.
Readiness work shaped by what our consultants have seen go wrong in live engagements not a template bought at a conference.
One team carries you from readiness planning through live response into full recovery. No handoff gaps during the worst week of the year.
Every plan, exercise, and playbook is scoped to your sector, regulatory burden, and threat surface. Generic boilerplate has no place in a real response.
Deliverables map to GDPR, NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and NIST so readiness work doubles as audit evidence.
Retainer clients reach a senior responder within the agreed SLA, with paperwork pre-authorized and forensic tooling pre-staged. No procurement calls during a breach.
Every action and every artifact is documented to forensic standards usable in regulator filings, insurance claims, and, if needed, a courtroom.
Demonstrated readiness is now a condition for cyber-insurance renewal and a lever for lower premiums. We produce exactly what underwriters ask for.
We don't keep your IR program dependent on us. Skills, runbooks, and confidence stay with your team for the next incident which there will be.
Legal, PR, executive, and customer communications are built into the response, so the public narrative doesn't get away from you while engineering is in the trenches.
Different organizations arrive at readiness from different places. Pick a project to fix what's most broken, or a retainer to keep capability warm year-round and combine the two when audit cycles demand it.
Fixed-scope readiness work IR plan development, tabletop exercises, playbook authoring, or technical readiness assessment. Best for organizations standing up their first formal response capability.
Guaranteed SLA-backed response, scheduled tabletop cycles, and credit hours usable across the full Hoplon portfolio from forensics through recovery to advisory and crisis comms.
A 30-minute consultation, no obligation. We'll walk through your current incident-response posture and what a first readiness engagement would look like for your environment.