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Digital Forensics Services & Incident Response (DFIR)

Forgepath provides digital forensics services that help you detect sooner, contain cleanly, and restore operations with defensible evidence across ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), insider abuse, and cloud/SaaS compromises.
Digital Forensics and Incident Response
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The Digital Forensic Services Challenge in Cybersecurity

Attacks rarely wait for business hours, and unclear roles, noisy telemetry, and identity abuse can turn a bad day into a prolonged outage. Effective DFIR services require prepared runbooks, the right visibility, disciplined communications, and investigations that stand up to legal and regulatory scrutiny.

288

days average time to identify and contain a breach.

11

days global median attacker dwell time before detection.

51 %

of security alerts occur outside business hours; 15% of which happen on weekends.

$ 1 M

average loss reduction when law enforcement is involved in ransomware cases.

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Explore Proactive Defense, Rapid Response, & Expert Advisory

When things go wrong, you need clear roles, fast containment, and evidence you can trust. When things are calm, we prepare your team and tighten controls, so the next incident is smaller or that it never happens.

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Incident Response Retainer

Stand up authorized playbooks, escalation paths, and tools before you need them. When an incident hits, we’re already onboarded and ready to act.

Ransomware Readiness

We pressure-test backups, identity controls, and isolation procedures—so clean recovery beats ransom demands and guesswork.

Threat Hunting & Discovery

We look for quiet persistence, misuse of credentials, and suspicious data flows—turning unknowns into action items.

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Incident Response

We scope fast, contain precisely, and coordinate recovery—keeping leaders informed with concise, defensible updates.

Ransomware Response

From triage and isolation to negotiation support and clean rebuilds, we cut time-to-restore and reduce decision risk.

Digital Forensics

We collect, preserve, and analyze evidence across endpoints, cloud, SaaS, and email—establishing timelines, root cause, and impact you can stand behind.

Frame 43 Advisory Services

Tabletop Exercises

Role-based, realistic scenarios that sharpen decision-making, communications, and technical execution without disrupting production.

IR Plan Development & Review

Clear, practical runbooks aligned to your environment and obligations—tested, versioned, and ready for auditors and insurers.

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Seven-Step Response & Readiness Framework

How Our DFIR Services Work?

We blend disciplined evidence handling with fast, business-aware decisions. Our digital forensics services use the same framework to scale from a live incident to program readiness, aligning with the frameworks and regulations your organization follows. Each step ends with concrete improvements you can measure.

Step 1

Prepare & Align

Define objectives, authorizations, and success measures before the alarm rings

We confirm business priorities, crown-jewel systems, legal contacts, insurer requirements, evidence standards, and response authority.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Establish roles, comms channels, SLAs (MTTD/MTTR), and decision authority
  • Document escalation paths (execs, legal, privacy, PR, insurer)
  • Pre-approve containment actions and change windows
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Step 2

Detect & Triage

Separate real incidents from noise—fast

We verify signals, assign severity, and initiate initial containment boundaries without destroying evidence.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Validate indicators, scope the blast radius, and protect volatile artefacts
  • Open a shared timeline and chain-of-custody log
  • Trigger the right runbook and stakeholder notifications
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Step 3

Investigate & Scope

Build a defensible timeline and determine root cause

We acquire and analyze artefacts (endpoints, identity, cloud/SaaS, email, network) to understand initial access, lateral movement, and data exposure.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Confirm entry vector(s), persistence, and affected identities/systems
  • Determine data at risk and regulatory/reporting implications
  • Quantify scope to prioritize containment and recovery
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Step 4

Contain & Eradicate

Stop attacker actions and remove footholds without collateral damage

We isolate systems, reset/rotate credentials, remove persistence, and harden controls so re-entry fails.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Execute staged containment with rollback options
  • Kill persistence (scheduled tasks, OAuth grants, keys, tokens)
  • Validate containment through targeted detections
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Step 5

Recover & Validate

Restore cleanly and prove it’s clean

We rebuild or restore from known-good sources, verify integrity, and set re-entry criteria so business resumes with confidence.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Clean rebuilds/restores with integrity checks and attestation
  • Gate production re-entry with technical and business sign-offs
  • Tune detections to catch any attempted resurgence
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Step 6

Communications & Evidence

Keep leaders informed and preserve what matters

We brief executives in plain language, coordinate with counsel and insurers, and maintain chain-of-custody for possible disclosure or litigation.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Executive updates that translate risk and next steps
  • Evidence logs and artefacts suitable for regulators/auditors
  • Decision logs capturing rationale and approvals
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Step 7

Improve & Report

Turn lessons learned into fewer, smaller incidents

We document root causes, track corrective actions, and validate fixes—so the same problem doesn’t repeat.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Remediation backlog with owners, dates, and measurable outcomes
  • Purple-team validations or focused hunts to verify improvements
  • Final incident report with timelines, impact, and recommendations
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DFIR Key Benefits

What You Can Expect From our DFIR services

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Materially faster containment

Pre-approved actions, tuned detections, and 24/7 escalation paths.

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Defensible timelines & evidence

Clear artefacts, chain-of-custody, and regulator/insurer-ready reports.

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Cleaner recoveries

Restore from known-good sources with re-entry criteria that prevent re-infection.

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Fewer repeat issues

Root-cause fixes, control hardening, and follow-up validations.

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Executive clarity

Concise updates, business impact framing, and metrics leaders can track.

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Cloud Systems & Security Manager
Zero.health
Working With Forgepath

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on our network and app security tests.

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Cloud Systems & Security Manager
Zero.health

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on both our network penetration test and application security assessment.

When a critical customer need arose, they quickly adjusted their schedule to meet our urgent timeline without compromising quality.

Their technical expertise, clear guidance, and hands-on remediation support helped us meet our EOY goals efficiently.

We were especially impressed by their flexibility, responsiveness, and professionalism throughout the process.

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Chief Executive Officer
parsysco.com
Working With Forgepath

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner.

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Chief Executive Officer
parsysco.com

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner to Parsysco. They took the time to understand our requirements and how things were working with our previous provider.

We were impressed by how quickly they formulated a new strategy and approach. They helped us identify our challenges and consistently brought forward solutions that were in Parsysco’s best interest.

Most vendors only care about selling something, Forgepath took the personal relationship and partnership approach that we value greatly.

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roven DFIR Services for Rapid Incident Response

From retainers and readiness to ransomware response and forensics, Forgepath delivers DFIR services with disciplined execution and results you can prove.
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Frequently Asked 
Questions About DFIR

Read-only access to prioritized data sources (endpoint, identity, cloud/SaaS, network, email), a comms channel, and an authorized runbook. We preserve evidence before making changes.

Yes. We operate on a 24/7/365 model with defined escalation paths and on-call coverage.

Yes. We coordinate with legal and carriers, maintain chain-of-custody, and support notification and documentation requirements.

We focus on rapid isolation, clean restore, and decision support. If negotiation is considered, we work alongside counsel and follow applicable regulations.

Both. We can co-manage existing EDR/XDR/SIEM/SOAR and deploy supplementary tooling if gaps exist.

Executive summaries, technical timelines, evidence logs, impact assessment, and a remediation plan with measurable follow-ups.

Yes—exercises expose decision gaps and reduce confusion under pressure, improving speed and quality when a real incident occurs.

Typically after a brief scoping call to confirm contacts, authorizations, data sources, and SLAs, Forgepath’s Digital Forensics Services finalize the runbook and begin the investigation to ensure a structured and effective response.

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