IRDF – Incident Response

SpearTip provides the necessary services to aid an organization’s ability to respond in the face of a crisis. These services are offered to help plan, implement practices, and provide knowledge to internal staff to hit the ground running in the case of a crisis. These situations could include data theft, fraud, tracking attempts, etc.

Case Study

CHALLENGE

Local firm concerned about many recent resignations amongst management and sales.

SpearTip APPROACH

• SpearTip was brought in to respond to corporate espionage case and immediatley began work with internal and external counsel and chief executives
• All systems and logs were requested and a forensic analysis was initiated
• Quickly triaged the situation and identified through intelligence collection efforts a new company that the resigned employees had started
• All network traffic and outward calls to/from the new company was filtered in order to identify additional co-conspirators
• SpearTip personnel conducted forensic analysis and identified the data stolen via emails, USB drives and printed documents to build our case

RESULT

• Client was able to act decisively against this group and retained their client base
• Client now has the capabilities, methodologies and processes to identify leaks as well as a strategy to mitigate them
• Client also has a strategy to mitigate threats and losses before they occur