Detection & Response

Digital Forensics. Reconstruct exactly what happened.

After an incident, assumptions are dangerous. We rebuild the timeline from the evidence itself: how they got in, where they went, what they took, and when. Findings that hold up to a regulator, an insurer, and a court.

Why forensics

After a breach, the questions that matter all have the same answer: the evidence. Guesswork in a forensic report is worse than no report at all.

Digital Forensics and Incident Response is the disciplined reconstruction of an attack from the artifacts it left behind: logs, disk images, memory, and cloud trails. We establish what truly happened, preserve a clean chain of custody, and give you findings you can rely on for disclosure, insurance, and legal action.

The method

From artifacts to a defensible account

Every investigation follows the same disciplined chain, so the conclusion rests on evidence and the evidence holds up to scrutiny.

01

Preserve

Capture forensic images of disk, memory, and logs with a documented chain of custody, before anything is changed.

02

Collect

Gather artifacts from endpoints, servers, cloud trails, and network records, leaving the originals untouched.

03

Analyze

Reconstruct the attacker's path step by step, using AI-assisted correlation to connect events across sources.

04

Establish

Determine how access was gained, what was reached, and what was taken, grounded in the artifacts.

05

Report

A clear, defensible account for technical teams, leadership, regulators, insurers, and counsel.

What we examine

Evidence lives everywhere

Modern attacks cross hosts, identities, and clouds. We collect and correlate across all of them so the timeline is whole.

Endpoint & disk

File system artifacts, registry, execution traces, and deleted-data recovery.

Memory

Volatile evidence of running malware, injected code, and in-memory secrets.

Cloud & identity

Control-plane logs, sign-in trails, and token use across your cloud accounts.

What you receive

Findings you can act on and defend

Root cause

How access was gained and the exact path the attacker followed, grounded in evidence.

Impact assessment

What data and systems were reached or taken, to inform disclosure and notification.

Chain of custody

Evidence handled to a standard that holds up for insurers, regulators, and courts.

Remediation guidance

The specific fixes that close the gap, so the same path cannot be used again.

Part of the loop

Where DFIR sits in VIGILE

Understand and improve

Learn what happened, Enhance the defenses

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DFIR is the Learn and Enhance motions in their sharpest form. We establish exactly what happened, and that truth becomes the hardening that raises your defenses for good.

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FAQ

Top 10 questions, frequently asked

Whenever knowing what actually happened matters as much as getting systems back. If there is any chance of data theft, regulatory notification, an insurance claim, or legal action, preserve the evidence and bring in forensics. Rebuilding first often destroys the trail you will later need.

Yes. We work from forensic copies of disk, memory, and logs rather than the live systems where possible, so the investigation runs alongside your recovery. Where live collection is needed, it is scoped and supervised to keep disruption minimal.

That is the point of a defensible chain of custody. We handle, document, and analyze evidence to a standard built for exactly those audiences, and we work alongside your counsel and insurer throughout so the report supports your position.

They run together. Incident Response contains and recovers, while DFIR establishes the full truth of what happened. In a live breach the two work side by side, and the forensic findings drive the hardening that follows.

Evidence preservation guidance starts on first contact, so nothing is lost while access is arranged. Imaging and collection typically begin within days, faster under a retainer.

Scoped by the number of systems and the depth of analysis required. Investigations run as fixed-scope engagements with the deliverables agreed up front.

Yes. Evidence is collected and documented to a standard that supports legal proceedings, and we work under counsel's direction where privilege matters.

Yes. Cloud-native forensics works from control-plane logs, snapshots, and identity trails, which often hold a more complete story than any disk image.

Then DFIR and Incident Response run side by side: containment proceeds with evidence preservation in mind, and the investigation feeds targeting back to the response team in real time.

Learn and Enhance in their sharpest form: the investigation establishes exactly what happened, and that truth becomes the hardening and the detections that follow.

Digital Forensics datasheetThe forensic method, the evidence sources, and the deliverables.
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Get the truth, on the record

Talk to a Principal Engineer about an investigation, whether you are mid-incident or need answers after one.