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Cyber Incident
Readiness Checklist.

Can your organisation respond effectively in the first 72 hours? Assess whether the people, decisions and processes needed during a cyber incident are already in place before an incident occurs.

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  • Governance & ownership
  • Escalation
  • GDPR & cyber notifications
  • Incident playbooks
  • Recovery & learning
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Cyber Incident Readiness Checklist

Can your organisation respond effectively in the first 72 hours?

Readiness before the incident

Cyber incidents create immediate operational, legal, regulatory and reputational decisions. The worst time to decide who has authority, whom to call or which notification regime applies is after the incident has already started.

Use this checklist to assess whether your organisation has a documented, owned and practically usable response process.

The objective is not perfect cybersecurity. It is to reduce dependency on improvisation when time, information and management attention are under pressure.

What the checklist covers

  • Incident governance and ownership
  • Escalation and first response
  • GDPR and cyber regulatory assessment
  • Cyber insurance and third-party notifications
  • Ransomware, BEC and other scenario playbooks
  • Recovery and business continuity
  • Board reporting and post-incident learning
Board & Counsel · Cyber Incident Response Toolkit

Be ready before the incident happens.

The Board & Counsel Cyber Incident Response Toolkit provides a complete, editable response framework covering governance, escalation, incident playbooks, GDPR and cyber notification assessments, supplier incidents, recovery, board reporting and tabletop exercises.

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Move from readiness check to response framework

A structured set of editable documents designed to help legal, management, privacy and security teams prepare for and manage a cyber incident without starting from a blank page.