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How Does Your IR Plan Measure Up?
Addressing Step Zero: How To Communicate in a Crisis?

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See How Your Incident Response Plan Stacks Up

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Getting Started

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How would you rate you Incident Response (IR) communications plan?
(1 being worst & 5 being best)

First, let's look at how Out-of-Band your solution is.

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Does your IR comms tool rely on any On-premise Components?
(e.g. single-sign-on?) Is there network-connected hardware that supports your IR comms tool that would no longer be trustworthy if your network is breached?

Yes
No
I Don't Know

First, let's look at how Out-of-Band your solution is.

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Is your alternate tool Dependent on Your Network? Does your IR tool depend on Active Directory, Single Sign On or other authentication tools that would be taken offline if your network is breached?

Yes
No
I Don't Know

First, let's look at how Out-of-Band your solution is.

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Is your chosen IR comms tool a Duplicate of Current Tool? Is your chosen IR comms tool a Duplicate of Current Tool?

Yes
No
I Don't Know

Now, let's look at how Secure your solution is.

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Are communications on your IR tool end-to-end encrypted (E2EE)? Don't forget: Encryption-at-rest and encryption-in-transit are not the same as end-to-end encryption.

Yes
No
I Don't Know

Now, let's look at how Secure your solution is.

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Can your admins see communications on your IR comms tool?
Will your comms be exposed to anyone with the proper admin credentials, intentionally or unintentionally

Yes
No
I Don't Know

Now, let's look at how Secure your solution is.

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Can your IR comms tool's provider see your communications?
(intentionally or unintentionally) Can your IR comms tool's provider see your communications? (intentionally or unintentionally)

Yes
No
I Don't Know

Finally, let's look at how well your solution supports compliance, regulatory, and legal requirements.

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Does your IR comms tool give you a way to manage users?
Define policies?

Yes
No
I Don't Know

Finally, let's look at how well your solution supports compliance, regulatory, and legal requirements.

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Does your IR comms tool give you the ability to retain comms for compliance, regulatory, or legal requirements?

Yes
No
I Don't Know

Finally, let's look at how well your solution supports compliance, regulatory, and legal requirements.

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Does your IR comms tool require self-hosting to enable archive retention?

Yes
No
I Don't Know

Your Overall Communications Plan Risk is:

Your communications plan could be impacted by a network breach





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