Incident Response & Digital Forensics

If you have an active incident — ransomware, a compromised account, data leaving your network — contact an operator now. Do not wait for a proposal. We stabilize first and scope later.

Incident response is the structured process of detecting, containing, investigating, and recovering from a security breach while preserving the evidence needed to understand it. Digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) combines that emergency work with forensic analysis: imaging affected systems, reconstructing attacker activity from logs and artifacts, and producing findings that stand up to insurers, regulators, and courts.

After a ransomware attack, a company should first isolate affected systems from the network — disconnect them, but do not power them off, because shutting down destroys memory evidence. Second, preserve logs and take forensic images before wiping or rebuilding anything. Third, activate the incident response plan and bring in insurers and legal counsel early. Do not pay, negotiate, or restore from backups until you know how the attacker got in and whether the backups themselves are clean.

That sequence is where most companies go wrong in the first six hours. Machines get rebooted, evidence gets destroyed, and infected backups get restored into a live attacker's hands. An engineering-grade response prevents all three.

Containment first: within hours, we identify the intrusion path, cut attacker access, and stop the spread — without destroying the evidence trail. Investigation runs in parallel: forensic imaging, log reconstruction, and scoping exactly what was accessed or exfiltrated. Then eradication and recovery: rebuilding from verified-clean sources, rotating credentials, closing the entry point, and confirming the attacker is out before systems come back online.

You get a plain-language situation report daily and a full forensic report at the end. Where attribution and threat context matter, our OSINT investigations team profiles the actor, their infrastructure, and whether your data has surfaced anywhere it should not be.

Evidence handling is chain-of-custody from the first image. Every artifact is hashed, logged, and stored so the findings survive scrutiny — from your cyber insurer, from regulators, and, if it comes to that, in litigation. Our forensic reports state what we know, what we suspect, and what cannot be determined. Radical honesty applies to breach reports too: we will not write you a cleaner story than the evidence supports.

An incident response retainer is a pre-negotiated agreement that guarantees a response team, defined response times, and pre-approved legal and commercial terms before an incident occurs — eliminating the days normally lost to contracting while an attacker is active. A good retainer also buys readiness: response plan review, tabletop exercises, and environment familiarization, so day one of a real incident is not day one of learning your network.

Blankpage incident response services under retainer include an annual readiness assessment, one tabletop exercise, and guaranteed remote response measured in hours, not days. Unused retainer hours convert to proactive security work. Nothing expires into thin air.

Every engagement ends with post-incident hardening: the specific fixes, in priority order, that would have stopped this attack. Many clients follow the incident with a penetration test to verify the fixes hold, then move ongoing monitoring into our broader cybersecurity practice. Breach, response, hardening, verification — one team, no hand-offs, and a clean exit when you no longer need us.