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Cyber Incident Readiness

Cyber Incident Readiness for High-Stakes Moments

RedCon1 Response helps organizations prepare for ransomware, business disruption, and cyber incidents through readiness assessments, response playbooks, tabletop exercises, and executive advisory support.

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Founded by Todd E. Nelson, MBA, CISM, AAISM | Incident Response | Security Operations | Cyber Risk
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The First 72 Hours: How Leaders Survive a Cyber Crisis

A practical executive guide to the leadership decisions, communication risks, evidence priorities, business continuity issues, and recovery choices that define the first seventy-two hours of a serious cyber incident.

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Services built for practical cyber readiness.

Start small with a fixed-fee QuickScan or build a broader readiness program.

Cyber Readiness QuickScan

A fixed-fee readiness assessment that gives leadership a clear view of incident response, ransomware readiness, communication gaps, and recovery assumptions.

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Ransomware Readiness Sprint

A deeper review of ransomware response, backup assumptions, executive decisions, third-party dependencies, and recovery priorities.

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Incident Response Playbooks

Practical, role-based playbooks your team can use under pressure instead of generic policy language.

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Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise

A facilitated exercise that tests decision-making, escalation, communications, and recovery assumptions.

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Security Operations Improvement

Improve alert triage, escalation, ownership, reporting, and response workflows without immediately buying more tools.

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Fractional Cyber Response Advisor

Ongoing executive advisory support for cyber readiness, incident planning, and security operations maturity.

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Starter Offer

Cyber Readiness QuickScan — $1,500

A focused fixed-fee assessment designed to help leadership understand where the organization stands before a cyber incident occurs. Delivered in 5 business days.

  • 60-minute discovery session
  • Executive-ready scorecard
  • Top 10 priority gaps
  • 30-day improvement plan
  • Backup and recovery assumption review

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Cyber Readiness QuickScan

What clients receive

Clear, practical deliverables that help leadership understand where readiness may break down, who owns the critical decisions, and what should be prioritized next.

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Executive readiness scorecard

A leadership-level snapshot of your current readiness posture, including visible strengths, high-risk gaps, and the areas most likely to create delay, confusion, or business disruption during the first seventy-two hours.

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Decision matrix

A practical map of the decisions that matter under pressure: containment authority, legal escalation, insurance coordination, communications approval, vendor involvement, recovery sequencing, and board reporting.

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30-day action plan

A focused, executive-ready plan that prioritizes the highest-impact readiness improvements first, assigns clear owners, and gives leadership a realistic path to reduce incident confusion before a real event occurs.

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Can Your Leadership Team Govern the First 72 Hours of a Cyber Crisis?

Cyber crisis readiness is leadership readiness. This checklist helps executives and incident leaders quickly assess whether the organization is prepared to make the decisions that matter most during the first seventy-two hours of a serious cyber incident.

Most organizations already have security tools, vendors, insurance policies, and response plans. The real test is whether leadership can turn those assets into coordinated action when facts are incomplete, pressure is high, and business operations are at risk.

Your submission will be captured in Netlify Forms under resource-download. RedCon1 Response does not ask for passwords, forensic evidence, or confidential incident data through this form.

Inside the checklist

  • Executive decision readiness questions
  • First 72-hour governance checkpoints
  • Ransomware and data extortion readiness prompts
  • Evidence, legal, insurance, and communications checks
  • Recovery and business continuity assumptions
  • QuickScan readiness prioritization prompts

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Read the Book Behind the First 72 Hours Framework

The First 72 Hours: How Leaders Survive a Cyber Crisis gives executives, founders, board members, risk leaders, IT leaders, and security leaders a practical framework for leading through cyber crisis before confusion becomes damage.

The book focuses on the leadership decisions that define the early hours of an incident: authority, evidence, containment, business impact, legal coordination, insurance activation, communication, recovery sequencing, and trust restoration.

By Todd E. Nelson

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Coming Next

Executive Cyber Crisis Readiness Course

The First 72 Hours course is being built as a practical training experience for executives, founders, board members, risk leaders, IT leaders, and security leaders who want to strengthen cyber crisis decision-making before an incident occurs.

This course will expand the concepts from the book into guided lessons, readiness exercises, workbook materials, leadership scenarios, and practical tools for governing the first seventy-two hours of a serious cyber incident.

It is designed for leaders who need to understand what decisions must be made, who should own them, how to preserve evidence, how to coordinate legal and insurance stakeholders, how to communicate under uncertainty, and how to restore operational trust.

  • Executive-ready cyber crisis leadership lessons
  • First 72-hour decision-making framework
  • Ransomware and data extortion readiness scenarios
  • Board, legal, insurance, and communications coordination
  • Practical workbooks and implementation exercises
  • Designed for leadership teams, not just technical responders

What I Build

I don't just advise on cyber resilience — I build it.

The same judgment that runs an incident drives what I build: human-governed systems for the two hardest halves of a cyber crisis — the decision to contain, and the path back to recovery — plus a public lab where the thinking is on display. Working proof of how I approach the problem. Not slideware. Software.

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Design-partner stage

ContainmentIQ

Agentic containment governed by real decision intelligence. It acts at machine speed, isolating threat and scoring containment options; while a live dependency-graph impact engine weighs every action two ways: the risk of acting now against the risk of waiting. Decision authority, first-class evidence preservation, and a tamper-evident ledger keep autonomous action from ever outrunning human judgment in high-consequence incidents — no live action without human approval, and it fails closed.

≈ 24,000 lines · 540+ passing safety tests · 104-model architecture

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In development

RecoverIQ

The recovery and resilience counterpart to ContainmentIQ, built on the same live dependency graph. The concept turns containment outcomes into sequenced recovery — ordering restoration by business impact and system interdependency rather than guesswork, with evidence-backed readiness that shows what is safe to bring back and when. Executive visibility tracks recovery posture in real time, while agentic, self-healing recovery proposes and stages restorative actions that stay human-gated at every step. Post-incident, it folds the response into structured, reusable learning — the goal is recovery confidence, not static documentation.

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Live demo · Public

Containment Command Lab

The open, public demonstration behind ContainmentIQ: triage, blast-radius mapping, scored containment options, an audit-ready decision ledger, and an executive brief. The principle is simple — agents recommend; humans authorize.

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Ready to strengthen your cyber readiness before an incident happens?

Start with a 30-minute Cyber Readiness Call. We’ll identify your highest-priority gaps, recommend the right starting point, and provide clear next steps.

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RedCon1 Response is also developing practical cyber resiliency simulation concepts that help organizations test readiness assumptions before a real incident occurs.