Incident Response & Rapid Recovery
Swift incident response and recovery services to minimize business impact from security breaches.
Every minute of a breach costs you more than the last.
When a cyber incident strikes — ransomware, data exfiltration, supply-chain compromise, or insider threat — the decisions made in the first 60 minutes determine whether you contain the damage or watch it compound. Vimix's Incident Response & Rapid Recovery practice delivers battle-tested expertise, pre-positioned tooling, and structured playbooks that activate the moment a threat is confirmed.
Our IR teams are composed of former SOC leads, forensic investigators, malware reverse engineers, and crisis communications specialists. We operate across your environment — on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and OT/ICS — with the tools, authority, and methodology to stop active threats, preserve forensic integrity, and restore operations at the speed your business demands.
Our Research
Average time to identify a breach for organizations without a dedicated IR capability — versus 28 days for organizations with a retained IR team on standby.
Average cost savings for organizations with a tested IR plan versus those that respond ad-hoc — according to IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024.
Vimix guaranteed response SLA for retainer clients — remote forensic tooling deployment begins within the first hour, 24×7×365.
Our Services
Our Incident Response practice spans the full incident lifecycle — from pre-breach readiness and retainer-based preparedness through active containment, forensic investigation, and structured recovery — delivered by specialists who have responded to hundreds of enterprise-scale incidents.
IR Retainer & Readiness Assessment
A pre-negotiated retainer ensures our team is on call 24×7 with your environment already understood. We conduct tabletop exercises, playbook reviews, and IR readiness assessments — so when an incident occurs, the first call is to a team that already knows your architecture, your crown-jewel assets, and your escalation paths.
Active Incident Containment
Our responders deploy within hours of engagement — remotely or on-site — to triage the incident, identify the attack vector, isolate compromised systems, and stop lateral movement. We use industry-leading EDR platforms (CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) and network forensics tools (Darktrace, ExtraHop, Zeek) to achieve rapid, evidence-preserving containment.
Digital Forensics & Root Cause Analysis
Every incident demands a definitive answer: how did the attacker get in, what did they access, and how far did they move? Our forensic investigators use EnCase, Magnet AXIOM, Volatility, and Autopsy to conduct memory forensics, disk imaging, log correlation, and malware analysis — producing a court-admissible forensic report and a precise root-cause determination.
Ransomware Response & Negotiation
Ransomware demands a specialized response. We deploy immutable backup validation, decryption feasibility assessment, and — where appropriate — threat actor negotiation support. Our team has experience with major ransomware families including LockBit, BlackCat/ALPHV, Cl0p, and Royal, and maintains current intelligence on actor TTPs to inform every decision.
Threat Actor Attribution & Intelligence
Understanding who attacked you — and why — shapes your recovery and future defence. We leverage MITRE ATT&CK framework mapping, threat intelligence platforms (Recorded Future, Mandiant Advantage, MISP), and dark web monitoring to attribute the attack, assess ongoing risk, and brief your leadership with intelligence-grade findings.
Structured Recovery & Hardening
Restoration without hardening is an invitation to re-infection. Following containment, we execute a structured recovery plan: clean-system rebuild, credential reset, patch deployment, and security control hardening — validated by a post-recovery penetration test to confirm the attack path is permanently closed before business systems are brought back online.
What we cover
Comprehensive
Security Capabilities
Purpose-built capabilities for every phase of incident response.
Digital Forensics & Evidence Preservation
Court-admissible forensic investigation using industry-standard tooling: EnCase Forensic, Magnet AXIOM, FTK Imager, Autopsy, and Volatility for memory forensics. We maintain strict chain-of-custody procedures throughout, ensuring forensic findings are defensible in regulatory proceedings, litigation, and law enforcement referrals. Every artifact is hash-verified, timestamped, and documented to evidentiary standards.
Ransomware Containment & Recovery
Specialized ransomware response: variant identification, lateral movement mapping, backup integrity validation, and structured recovery from immutable snapshots.
Malware Reverse Engineering
Static and dynamic malware analysis using Ghidra, IDA Pro, Cuckoo Sandbox, and Any.Run to understand attacker capabilities and persistence mechanisms.
Network Forensics & Traffic Analysis
Full-packet capture analysis with Wireshark, Zeek, and ExtraHop to reconstruct data exfiltration paths and C2 communications.
Identity Compromise Investigation
Azure AD / Entra ID, Okta, and Active Directory forensics to identify credential theft, token abuse, and privilege escalation chains.
Cloud IR (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Cloud-native incident response: CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, GCP Audit Logs analysis, IAM forensics, and compromised workload isolation across multi-cloud environments.
Regulatory Notification Support
Breach notification drafting and filing support for GDPR (72-hour), SEC (4-day material), HIPAA, and PCI-DSS requirements — reducing regulatory exposure.
Threat Actor Attribution
MITRE ATT&CK TTP mapping, threat intelligence correlation via Recorded Future and Mandiant, and dark web monitoring for data exposure confirmation.
All services delivered through a single pane of glass with unified reporting and alerting
What Sets Vimix Apart
Why CISOs choose Vimix IR over assembling an ad-hoc response when an incident is already in progress.
| Capability | Vimix IR Practice | Ad-Hoc / In-House Response |
|---|---|---|
| Response activation | Pre-negotiated retainer — team mobilized within 1 hour, 24×7×365 | Hours to days finding and contracting a firm during an active crisis |
| Environment familiarity | Pre-breach onboarding means we know your architecture, assets, and escalation paths before day one | Responders arrive cold — critical time lost on discovery |
| Tooling | CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Splunk, Volatility, EnCase, Ghidra — enterprise-grade, pre-deployed | Dependent on whatever tooling happens to be available internally |
| Forensic integrity | Strict chain-of-custody, hash-verified evidence, court-admissible reporting | Evidence frequently contaminated during unstructured response |
| Ransomware expertise | Current intelligence on LockBit, BlackCat, Cl0p, Royal and 50+ active groups | Generic response — no actor-specific intelligence or negotiation capability |
| Regulatory support | In-house legal and compliance team supports GDPR, SEC, HIPAA, PCI-DSS notifications | Separate legal engagement required — delays notification deadlines |
| Cloud coverage | Native AWS, Azure, GCP IR capability with cloud-specific forensic tooling | Most in-house teams lack cloud forensics depth |
| Post-incident hardening | Validated remediation + post-recovery penetration test before systems return to production | Systems restored without confirming attack path is closed |
Don't Wait for an Incident to Find Out You're Not Ready.
An IR retainer costs a fraction of what a single uncontained breach will cost your organization. Schedule a 30-minute IR Readiness Assessment with our team — we'll evaluate your current detection and response capabilities and show you exactly where the gaps are.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between an IR retainer and an ad-hoc engagement?
An IR retainer is a pre-negotiated agreement that gives you guaranteed response SLAs, pre-breach environment onboarding, and a team that already understands your architecture before an incident occurs. Ad-hoc engagements are contracted during an active crisis — when every hour spent on procurement and onboarding is an hour the attacker remains in your environment. Retainer clients receive priority mobilization, typically within 1 hour of engagement, 24×7×365.
How quickly can Vimix respond to an active incident?
Retainer clients receive a response within 1 hour of engagement, with remote deployment of forensic tooling beginning immediately. On-site deployment is available in major metropolitan areas within 4–8 hours. For non-retainer emergency engagements, we target initial remote response within 4 hours, subject to team availability.
What tools does Vimix use for incident response?
Our toolkit spans the full IR lifecycle: CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne for EDR and live response; Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and IBM QRadar for log analysis; EnCase, Magnet AXIOM, and FTK Imager for forensic acquisition; Volatility and WinPmem for memory forensics; Ghidra, IDA Pro, and Any.Run for malware analysis; Zeek and ExtraHop for network forensics; and Recorded Future and Mandiant Advantage for threat intelligence. Tool selection is adapted to your environment.
Can Vimix respond to ransomware incidents specifically?
Yes. Ransomware response is one of our core specializations. Our team maintains current intelligence on all major ransomware groups and their TTPs, conducts decryption feasibility assessments, validates backup integrity before recovery attempts, and — where appropriate — provides threat actor negotiation support. We have responded to incidents involving LockBit, BlackCat/ALPHV, Cl0p, Royal, Akira, and dozens of other active groups.
How does Vimix handle regulatory notification requirements?
We provide end-to-end regulatory notification support, including breach scope determination, notification drafting, and filing coordination for GDPR (72-hour supervisory authority notification), SEC cybersecurity rules (4-day material incident disclosure), HIPAA breach notification, and PCI-DSS incident reporting. Our team works directly with your legal counsel to ensure notifications are accurate, timely, and defensible.
What deliverables does Vimix provide after an incident?
Every engagement concludes with a comprehensive incident report covering: executive summary, full attack timeline, forensic findings, IOCs and TTPs mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, root cause determination, regulatory notification support package, and a prioritized remediation roadmap. For retainer clients, we also conduct a lessons-learned workshop and update your IR playbooks based on the incident findings.
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