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Incident Readiness & Exercising
Only a quarter of UK businesses have a formal incident response plan, according to the government's Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025/26. We write a plan that fits how you actually operate, then take your leadership through a realistic scenario, so the first time they use it is not during a real attack.
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Who it is for
Leadership teams, public bodies and boards that need to show readiness to auditors, regulators and insurers.
What is included
- Incident response plan and playbooks for ransomware, account compromise, data loss and denial of service
- Roles, decision rights and communications, including regulators and customers
- A facilitated tabletop exercise built on current threats
- Review of backups, logging and recovery against the scenario
What you get
- An incident response plan and playbooks
- An exercise report with lessons and actions
- A checklist for the first hour of an incident
This is readiness, not an on-call response service. Where you need an incident response provider on call, we help you choose and contract one.
Why Cipherer
- Principal-led. The person who scopes the work does the work, with no hand-off to a junior team.
- SC-cleared principal consultant (National Security Vetting), and a Cyber Essentials certified company.
- Seventeen years of delivery across government, healthcare, banking and Web3, including an organisation-wide cyber security programme for the Scottish Government.
- Security by design in everything we build and run, from a community website to a bank's data platform.
- One partner from advice to operation, based in Scotland and working across the UK.
Every engagement starts with a short call to agree scope, then a written proposal setting out deliverables, timeline and price.