Readiness & Recovery

A cyber incident response plan documents the roles, decisions, and steps an organization follows when a cyber event happens, from detection and containment through communication and recovery. Strong plans cover more than the technical response. NexAI helps organizations build and test the leadership, legal, technical, operational, and communications plans they would need for a serious cyber event.

A tabletop exercise is a discussion-based simulation in which a team walks through a realistic cyber scenario and talks through how it would respond. It reveals gaps in the plan, unclear decision rights, and missing contacts without disrupting operations. Many organizations have tested their technical team but never their executive leadership, who carry many of the most consequential decisions.

Many organizations test at least once a year and again after major changes, such as an acquisition, new systems, or leadership turnover. Some regulators and cyber insurers also have testing requirements. A plan that has never been tested leaves leaders working out their roles at the moment they most need clarity.

A serious cyber event involves far more than IT. Response typically requires coordination among IT, legal counsel, cyber insurers, forensic firms, communications, and executive leadership, along with clear agreement on who makes which decisions if something goes wrong.

Incident response focuses on detecting, containing, and managing a cyber event as it unfolds. Disaster recovery focuses on restoring systems and data afterward. Business continuity planning keeps critical operations running in the meantime. Readiness means these plans work together, with leadership prepared to make decisions across all three.

A post-incident review looks back at a cyber event to understand what happened, what worked, and what should change. NexAI provides independent post-recovery reviews for organizations that have experienced a cyber event, so each event becomes stronger governance and performance.