Incident Riders is a digital forensics and incident response firm. We work with general counsel, CISOs, and cyber insurers to contain active attacks remotely, establish what happened, and return the business to normal operations.
Incident response and digital forensics, from the first alert to the final report.
The same team handles the matter from start to finish. The analyst who pulls the telemetry is the one who presents the findings to your board.
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Emergency Incident Response
Our responders join your incident bridge within the hour. We contain the affected systems remotely, preserve volatile evidence from cloud and endpoint telemetry, and manage the incident through to closure so your team can keep the business running.
24/7 retainerRemote-firstBreach coach liaison
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Digital Forensics
Remote acquisition and analysis of disk, memory, mobile, and cloud artifacts. Every exhibit is handled under a documented chain of custody, and every finding can be reproduced by another examiner.
Disk & memoryCloud artifactsDocumented custody
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Ransomware & Extortion Response
Variant identification, decryption feasibility analysis, and negotiation support, based on 46 families we have reverse engineered. You get a clear picture of your options before any decision about payment.
Variant IDDecryption analysisNegotiation support
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Threat Hunting & Compromise Assessment
Proactive sweeps across endpoints, identity, and cloud control planes to determine whether you are currently compromised and, if so, for how long.
MITRE ATT&CKIdentity & cloudDwell-time analysis
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Malware Reverse Engineering
Static and dynamic analysis of the payload in our isolated lab. We extract IOCs, C2 infrastructure, and attacker tooling and hand them to your detection team in a usable format.
IOC extractionSandbox detonationYARA & Sigma rules
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Cloud & Identity Breach Response
Investigation of compromised identities, OAuth abuse, and misconfigured tenants across AWS, Azure, and GCP. We close the path the attacker used and remove any persistence they left behind.
AWS · Azure · GCPIdentity & OAuthTenant hardening
02Methodology
A defined timeline for every engagement.
T+0–1h
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Triage
Scoping call, telemetry pull, and severity assessment. You know what you are dealing with before any work is billed.
T+1–4h
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Contain
Isolate hosts, freeze credentials, and remove persistence. Executed remotely and coordinated live with your team, with evidence preserved throughout.
Day 1–7
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Investigate
Timeline reconstruction across disk, memory, logs, and cloud. Root cause, dwell time, and full scope of access.
Week 1–2
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Eradicate & Recover
Remove the attacker, rebuild from known-good sources, validate integrity, and plan the return to normal operations.
Week 2–4
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Report & Harden
Executive and technical reports, support for regulators and insurers, and a prioritized hardening plan.
03The Firm
Senior examiners on every engagement.
Incident Riders was founded by digital forensics and incident response practitioners with experience leading engagements for enterprises, insurers, and managed detection teams. A senior examiner leads every engagement, because the analysis we deliver during an incident has to stand up to scrutiny months later.