Data Breach Investigation
Data Breach Investigation delivered by SecByte consultants: scoped engagement, manual validation of every reported issue, and a professional report your engineering team can act on.
manual
One-time engagement
Overview
Data Breach Investigation is a scoped, human-led engagement delivered by SecByte consultants within Incident Response & Forensics. We combine automated tooling and AI-assisted analysis for coverage with manual testing for accuracy — every reported issue is validated by a consultant before it reaches your report, so your team never spends time on false positives.
Who needs this
- Organisations with a compliance, customer or audit requirement
- Teams shipping changes to systems that handle sensitive data
- Security leaders who need an independent, evidence-backed view of risk
What we test
- Initial access vector and timeline reconstruction
- Persistence, lateral movement and privilege abuse
- Data staging, exfiltration and impact assessment
- Host, memory, network and cloud artefact analysis
- Containment, eradication and recovery guidance
Methodology
- 1Immediate triage and containment advice
- 2Evidence preservation and forensic acquisition
- 3Timeline reconstruction and root-cause analysis
- 4Eradication and recovery support
- 5Final report and lessons-learned session
Deliverables
- Executive summary for leadership
- Technical findings report with evidence
- Severity classification and CVSS scoring
- Prioritised remediation guidance
- Remediation debrief call
Typical scope inputs
- Affected hosts and accounts
- Available logs and images
- Incident contacts and authority
Optional add-ons
- Free retest of remediated findings
- Executive briefing for leadership or the board
- Client-safe attestation letter for customers
- Developer or engineering remediation workshop