Incident Response · 26 articles

Incident Response

IR playbooks, breach response, forensics, regulator notification timelines.

Academy

Module 2 · Disk Imaging — Forensically Sound Acquisition

Why this module exists. “We made a copy of the disk” is not the same as “we forensically imaged the disk.” The…

May 13, 2026 · 4 min read
Incident Response

Ransomware Economics 2026 — Payment Rates Down, Pressure Up, India Now Top-5 Victim Geography

Ransomware economics in 2026: payment rates dropped to 28%, average payment rose to K, exfil-only model replacing classic encrypt-and-extort. Affiliate economy structure,…

May 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Academy

Disaster Recovery — RTO, RPO, Recovery Testing

RTO/RPO tiers, DR architecture patterns (active-active, hot standby, pilot light, backup-restore), drill methodology, ransomware-specific DR, the 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule.

Apr 26, 2026 · 5 min read
Academy

Digital Forensics and Chain of Custody

Order of volatility, RAM and disk imaging, NTFS/Linux artefacts, cloud forensics, mobile forensics, IT Act §65B, BSA admissibility — the practitioner forensic…

Apr 26, 2026 · 6 min read
Academy

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

BCP and DR end-to-end — BIA, RTO/RPO, recovery strategies, plan documentation, drill cadence, ransomware-aware DR, and the operational discipline that makes plans…

Apr 26, 2026 · 4 min read
Blue Team

Volatility Memory Forensics: A Walkthrough for IR Teams

Volatility 3 workflow for incident response — memory capture (WinPmem, AVML), high-leverage plugins (pstree, netscan, malfind, hashdump, lsadump), real-world analysis pattern, anonymised…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read