CERC
The Cyber Emergency Response Centre exists to shorten the distance between detection and containment.
- Named responders on retainer with agreed response times.
- Pre-built playbooks for ransomware, business email compromise, data theft and destructive attacks.
- Coordination with law enforcement, regulators, insurers and communications teams.
- Continuous improvement loop that reduces repeat incidents and response cost.
The Cyber Emergency Response Centre exists to remove the delay between detecting an incident and containing it. Under retainer, named responders are contractually committed to a response time, already hold the context of your environment and can begin work without a procurement cycle, the single largest avoidable cost in most incidents.
Onboarding builds the material response depends on: asset and identity inventory, network and cloud architecture, escalation contacts, legal and insurer notification requirements, and pre-approved containment authority so a responder can isolate a host at three in the morning without waiting for a committee.
Playbooks are pre-built for ransomware, business email compromise, data theft, destructive attacks and insider incidents, and rehearsed with your team before they are needed. During an incident CERC coordinates the parties that otherwise consume executive attention, law enforcement, regulators, insurers, external counsel and communications, while technical containment proceeds in parallel.
After the event, a structured review feeds detection and hardening improvements back into your environment. Retainer hours not consumed by incidents are used for that work, so the arrangement produces value in quiet quarters as well as bad ones.
What response times are available?
Retainers are offered with one-hour, four-hour and next-business-day response tiers, selected per client and written into the agreement.