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Incident Response & Readiness Guide

AI is changing the way organizations prepare for and respond to incidents. This guide will show you:

  • Insight into how AI and automation are transforming incident response
  • Awareness of the expanding attack surface from supply chain, cloud, and third-party risks
  • Key strategies for improving detection, response, and security
  • Practical guidance to build resilience against cyber threats

When adversaries come knocking, will you be ready?

This guide was built for security teams who thrive on staying one step ahead. Packed with real-world insights and proven frameworks, it’s your go-to resource for mastering modern incident response challenges.

In this fast-paced, evolving world, preparation and timing make all the difference. With this guide, you’ll have the tools to turn setbacks into successes and confidently tackle whatever comes your way.

A handbook for leaders, based on our time in the trenches

1000+

incident response engagements fueled the insights this guide

9 years

in the making—Red Canary has deep experience in security operations

500

security leaders across industries informed the findings

 
 
 
 


About the guide

Incident management can be complex, even for seasoned security teams. That’s why this guide focuses on what works, drawing from Red Canary’s experience and the successes of the teams we support.

Built on lessons learned from real incidents, it’s designed to help you strengthen your SOC and build a better incident response program as you scale from endpoint to cloud security.

Need expert help to stay ahead of threats? Explore Red Canary’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for proven support.

Essential incident response resources

This summary empowers modern enterprises to efficiently handle cybersecurity incidents of all sizes through effective preparation and training. Explore our additional resources to enhance your readiness today.

Real Estate Cybersecurity Case Study

Incident Response Case Study

This S&P 500 company understood that in order to mature their IR program, they needed a partner capable of outputting high-fidelity detections to find more threats and weed out the noise.

Ready, Detect, Respond: Building confidence in your defenses

Ready, Detect, Respond: Building confidence in your defenses

In this on-demand webinar, one of Red Canary’s co-founders breaks down the concept of security readiness and what it means for security teams to be prepared when it comes time to respond to threats, framed by a harrowing real-life scenario.

IR&R Executive Summary

Executive Summary: Incident Response & Readiness

Just want the highlights from the Incident Response & Readiness Guide? This TL;DR version of the guide gives you a snapshot of the most pertinent key takeaways we’ve observed—in a format that’s designed to be skimmable.

RACI Matrix

Putting it into practice

Our team has developed a fully customizable Incident Response RACI matrix to help you visualize and manage the delegation of responsibilities as they relate to SEV-1 or SEV-2 incidents.

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