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Investigation & Forensics

Cybersecurity Cloud Security Context OT/ICS Security Context SaaS Security Context Respond (Cybersecurity Incident Response) Communications & Disclosure Containment & Eradication Incident Intake & Triage Investigation & Forensics Lessons Learned & Improvement Dependency & Relationship Mapping
Cybersecurity Cloud Security Context OT/ICS Security Context SaaS Security Context Respond (Cybersecurity Incident Response) Communications & Disclosure Containment & Eradication Incident Intake & Triage Investigation & Forensics Lessons Learned & Improvement Dependency & Relationship Mapping
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Determine what happened, what was affected, and what evidence supports decisions, enabling confident containment, disclosure, and recovery actions.

Investigation and forensics focus on establishing the facts and scope of an incident with sufficient evidence for business decisions, legal defensibility, and learning.

Outcomes

  • Clear understanding of impacted services, data, and customers
  • Faster containment decisions with higher confidence
  • Stronger evidence for regulators, auditors, insurers, and legal teams
  • Improved root-cause understanding to prevent recurrence

Typical scope

  • Evidence collection and preservation (chain-of-custody where needed)
  • Timeline reconstruction and scope assessment
  • Attribution and root cause analysis (where feasible)
  • Decision support for containment, disclosure, and recovery priorities

GenAI-enabled execution

Agents can help summarize timelines, correlate artifacts, and draft incident reports—guardrailed by strict data-access controls, privacy requirements, and human validation of conclusions before external use.