Practical cybersecurity resources

Detailed response procedures covering the first 24 hours after a major incident or a critical Red Team finding.

• First 24 hours after a ransomware detonation in a regional bank.
• Containment playbook for business e-mail compromise with payment fraud exposure.
• Cloud account takeover: minimal viable actions for security and finance teams.
• Active Directory compromise: break-glass recovery and privilege reset sequence.
• Insider investigation: evidence preservation, HR/legal coordination and containment.

Condensed threat intelligence for executives who need the business impact of complex activity without jargon.

• Ransomware trends in Central and Eastern Europe and what they mean for mid-size organisations.
• Targeted extortion against logistics, transport and critical suppliers in the region.
• Realistic threat models for financial institutions and payment-heavy businesses.
• Token theft and consent abuse in Microsoft 365 environments.
• Supply-chain compromise patterns seen in MSP and telecom ecosystems.

Set the questions leadership must resolve: impact, decision authority, recovery priorities and accountability.

• What to ask your CISO after a major incident - a practical agenda for the first board session.
• Effective supplier due diligence aligned with your risk appetite and regulatory requirements.
• Cloud security: ten questions to guide practical improvements.
• Ransomware readiness: decision rights, backups and recovery time objectives.
• Measurable incident outcomes: detection time, response time, containment time and the extent of the impact.

Guidance on GDPR, DORA and NIS2 that connects legal language with concrete technical and organisational controls.

• GDPR: mapping real data flows and technical measures, not just paper policies.
• DORA: making incident response, testing and reporting requirements work with your existing teams.
• NIS2: prioritising investments for operators of essential and important entities.
• DORA: building an ICT incident classification and reporting workflow.
• PCI DSS: continuous testing and evidence that auditors accept.

Working templates that security and risk teams can adapt to their own processes.

• Incident briefing template for boards and regulators.
• Tabletop exercise scenarios tailored to banks, fintechs and critical infrastructure.
• Risk register examples aligned with cyber, operational and regulatory risk.
• Evidence register / chain-of-custody worksheet for investigations.
• Post-incident review facilitation guide with ownership and deadlines.

Coverage maps, rule standards and triage playbooks designed to reduce alert fatigue without losing signal.

• MITRE ATT&CK coverage map for your environment and priority business services.
• Sigma rule writing standard, QA checklist and deployment workflow.
• SOC triage playbooks for token theft, lateral movement and data staging.
• Hunting hypotheses catalogue tailored to regional attacker behaviour.
• Alert tuning workflow that turns noisy detections into measurable outcomes.

Practical IAM baselines for on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments, with monitoring considerations.

• Privileged access model for hybrid AD / Entra ID deployments.
• Break-glass account design with monitoring, rotation and tested recovery.
• Phishing-resistant MFA rollout plan with exception handling.
• Service account inventory and credential rotation tracker.
• A Conditional Access baseline for Microsoft 365 that supports business continuity.

Operator-grade checklists for logging, identity, segmentation and rapid response in cloud-native incidents.

• Microsoft 365 incident response quick actions (sessions, tokens, mail rules, audit).
• Azure logging and retention baseline for investigations and compliance.
• AWS account hardening checklist aligned to real attack paths.
• SaaS vendor security questionnaire focused on telemetry and breach notification.
• Cloud attack path mapping worksheet for identity, storage and CI/CD.

Clear, practical controls for procurement and security teams.

• Vendor compromise response playbook (MSP, SaaS, integrator).
• Contract clauses for security telemetry, right to audit and breach notification.
• Critical supplier tiering model tied to business processes.
• MSP access review plan: least privilege, segmentation and monitoring.
• Questions about software bills of materials (SBOMs) and supply-chain controls, focused on reducing risk.

Tabletops, purple-team cycles and drills that translate into updated runbooks and detection content.

• Tabletop scenario pack: ransomware, BEC and cloud account takeover.
• Purple-team exercise plan with success criteria and debrief prompts.
• Crisis communications drill for executives, legal and PR.
• SOC shift handover exercise to catch slow-burn intrusions.
• Post-exercise improvement tracker with owners, dates and evidence.