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Respond, Remediate, Recover (RRR): Your Expert Partner in a Crisis
Why You Need Total Assure's RRR Solution
Our suite of services is designed to provide critical support at every phase of the lifecycle, ensuring you're never navigating a threat alone. Total Assure provides:
- 24/7/365 Incident Response Hotline and SLA
- Rapid Threat Containment and Isolation
- Thorough Threat Remediation and Eradication
- Safe and Strategic System Recovery
- Post-Incident Reporting and Resilience Planning
How It Works: A Disciplined Process to Manage Chaos
When a crisis hits, a structured, battle-tested process is the key to a successful outcome. Our RRR service is built on a clear methodology designed for speed, efficiency, and thoroughness, ensuring no step is missed in the heat of the moment.
Our Process Overview:
Our methodology is a continuous, three-stage cycle:
Stage 1
Response & Triage
Our engagement begins the moment you contact our 24/7 hotline. Our incident response commander immediately gets on a call with your team to understand the situation, triage the event, and provide immediate, actionable guidance to stop the bleeding. The primary goal is containment. We work to rapidly isolate affected systems, block attacker access, and prevent the threat from spreading further across your network.
Stage 2
Remediation & Eradication
Once the immediate threat is contained, we systematically hunt for and remove every trace of the attacker from your environment. Our team uses advanced forensic tools to identify the root cause, understand the attacker's tactics, and ensure all backdoors, malware, and compromised accounts are thoroughly cleaned up. We don't just patch the initial entry point; we work to ensure the attacker has no way back into your systems.
Stage 3
Recovery & Resilience
The final and most critical phase focuses on safely and strategically restoring your business operations. This involves validating the integrity of your systems, restoring data from clean backups, and carefully bringing services back online in a controlled manner. Throughout the process, we provide clear communication and post-incident reporting that details what happened, how we fixed it, and what you can do to prevent it from happening again, ultimately making your organization more resilient.
Technology and Timeline:
We utilize a suite of powerful incident response and forensic technologies, including advanced Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools for threat hunting, forensic imaging software to preserve evidence, and secure communication platforms to manage the crisis.
Our timeline is dictated by the urgency of your crisis:
First 15-60 Minutes
You are on a call with our incident response commander, and we are actively working to contain the threat. Our SLA guarantees a rapid response to begin this critical phase.
First 24-72 Hours
This is typically the most intensive period, focused on deep investigation, remediation, and eradication of the threat from your core systems.
First Week and Beyond
The focus shifts to methodical recovery, validating systems, and bringing the business back to full operational capacity. The full recovery timeline can vary based on the severity of the incident, but our process is designed to accelerate it at every stage.
Features & Benefits: From Crisis to Control and Recovery
Our RRR service is an end-to-end solution that provides the technical expertise and crisis leadership needed to navigate a security incident successfully.
Feature
Detailed Description
Business Impact & Benefit
24/7/365 Incident Response Hotline & SLA
Our service is backed by a 24/7 hotline and a strict Service Level Agreement (SLA), guaranteeing you can reach an expert incident commander within minutes of declaring an incident.
You have a dedicated, expert team on speed dial, ensuring that you get experienced help at the most critical moment, any time of day or night.
Rapid Threat Containment and Isolation
Our first priority is to stop the attack from spreading. We use advanced tools and techniques to quickly isolate compromised systems and block attacker activity.
By containing the threat in minutes or hours instead of days, we drastically limit the scope and impact of the breach, protecting critical systems and data.
Thorough Threat Remediation and Eradication
We go beyond just removing the initial malware. We perform a deep-dive investigation to find and eliminate all attacker artifacts, including rootkits, backdoors, and compromised credentials.
By ensuring the attacker is completely and verifiably removed from your network, we prevent the common and costly scenario of a repeat attack a few weeks later.
Safe and Strategic System Recovery
We guide you through the process of restoring your operations, including validating the integrity of backups, rebuilding systems from a known-good state, and monitoring for any signs of trouble.
Our methodical approach ensures that you don't inadvertently re-introduce the threat during the recovery phase, getting you back to business faster and more securely.
Post-Incident Reporting and Resilience Planning
After the crisis is resolved, we provide a detailed report on the incident's root cause, timeline, and impact, along with actionable recommendations to improve your security posture.
You gain valuable intelligence from the incident, allowing you to make targeted security improvements that strengthen your defenses and make you more resilient against future attacks.
The return on investment (ROI) for our RRR service is one of the highest in cybersecurity. The cost of an engagement is often a tiny fraction of the cost of a single major incident, which can include millions in lost revenue from downtime, regulatory fines, and recovery expenses. Our service is an investment in business survival.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. In fact, most cyber insurance policies require you to use a pre-approved incident response firm. They want you to have an expert team on hand to minimize the damage and thus limit the size of their claim payout. Our RRR service is designed to work directly with your insurance provider.
The cost can vary significantly based on the severity and complexity of the incident. We typically work off an upfront retainer that covers the initial stages of response and investigation. We are transparent with our pricing and will keep you informed throughout the engagement.
Not necessarily. While it may seem intuitive, shutting down systems can destroy valuable forensic evidence that is critical for understanding the attack and ensuring a thorough cleanup. Our first instruction is always "don't panic." Call us first, and we will guide you on the right containment strategy.
Our official guidance is to avoid paying the ransom whenever possible. There is no guarantee you will get your data back, and paying encourages the attackers. Our primary focus is on recovering your data from backups. We will help you evaluate all your options based on your specific situation.
We maintain a 24/7 emergency hotline for new victims of a cyberattack. While our retainer clients receive priority response and preferential rates, we are here to help any organization in a crisis.
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