Design Poise prepares the response stack end-to-end — IR planning, tabletop drills, hardening, detection engineering, and forensic readiness — so incident response runs to a procedure with documented runbooks, not from a panic in a Slack channel.
IR plans, role definitions, communication trees, escalation procedures, and runbooks for the incident types you will actually see — not the generic plan everyone has and nobody can run.
Scenario-based drills with leadership, IT, and legal in the room together — surfacing the coordination gaps and decision-authority gaps before a real incident does.
CIS benchmark-aligned hardening for endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and network — with baseline configurations, drift detection, and exception management built in.
SIEM rule development, EDR tuning, log aggregation, and detection mapped to MITRE ATT&CK — high-signal alerts engineered, not noise normalized.
Evidence collection processes, chain-of-custody procedures, log retention strategy, and forensic tooling — so when the post-incident review happens, the evidence is there to actually review.
Four phases that take an incident readiness engagement from current-state assessment through planning and hardening to a tested response capability — with senior practitioners on the runbooks and the drills run with the people who will actually have to respond.
Current-state assessment of IR capability, hardening posture, detection coverage, and forensic readiness — mapped against MITRE ATT&CK, CIS benchmarks, and the organization's actual threat picture.
IR plans authored, runbooks built, escalation paths documented, communications templates drafted, and detection coverage gaps registered — with the plan written for the people who will actually run it.
Baseline configurations rolled out, detection rules tuned, EDR policies adjusted, and log aggregation stood up — with hardening tied to threat scenarios, not generic CIS scores.
Tabletop exercises run with leadership, IT, and legal — with findings, decisions, and gaps documented for follow-up. The exercise is the point, not the certificate.
Start with a design review. Senior engineers on every engagement. Royalty retainer standard, full IP transfer at premium.
No junior delegation. No hourly billing. Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner with a Fortune 500 portfolio — Alienware, Dell, Viper Motorcycle, Load King, Starbucks.
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