Is Your Organisation Really Prepared for a Cyber Incident?

While many organisations have made progress in strengthening their cyber security posture, a significant number still fall short when it comes to testing and validating their incident response (IR) capabilities.

Why Incident Response Testing Matters

Without regular incident response testing, it’s difficult to know whether your team is ready to act swiftly and effectively in the event of a cyber breach. Exercises that simulate real-world scenarios help clarify roles and responsibilities, improve coordination, and build confidence under pressure. Most importantly, they reveal critical gaps that may otherwise go unnoticed.

Optimising Incident Response with Kaon Security

To help New Zealand organisations take a proactive approach, Kaon Security offers a practical and engaging Incident Response Optimisation service. The service brings together relevant stakeholders to explore hypothetical breach scenarios. Participants are encouraged to walk through their response steps, referencing the organisation’s existing IR plan. These exercises foster discussion, clarify expectations, and often highlight overlooked areas that need improvement—resulting in an actionable roadmap to strengthen your response capability.

Kaon Security’s Incident Response Optimisation service is delivered in two key phases:

1. Assessment Phase

• Evaluate your current level of incident response readiness.
• Review and analyse your existing plans, templates, and documentation.
• Identify gaps, overlaps, and inefficiencies.
• Clarify and refine team roles and responsibilities.

2. Prepare and Deliver Phase

• Develop a library of custom playbooks for common threats, aligned to your organisation's structure.
• create or amend a formal incident response plan for internal approval and use, plus create or amend reporting templates.
• Present relevant documentation to guide your team through response actions.
• Facilitate a live walkthrough of a tailored incident scenario using a sample playbook.

Click below to read how one organisation improved its preparedness and response capability with our Incident Response Optimisation service.

 

Case Study: Incident Response Optimisation

 

A well-defined and tested incident response plan - supported by a comprehensive library of playbooks and training - will ensure your team is prepared to act decisively when it matters most.

Vital to Holistic Risk Management: Cybersecurity Risk Register

Holistic risk profiling involves identifying, assessing, and managing all risks across an enterprise - including hidden risks, those outside traditional categories, and cyber security risks. Risks are not isolated events and are often linked and can influence each other, creating a ripple effect throughout the organisation. As part of a broader risk management framework, a cyber security risk register plays an important role in documenting, evaluating, and mitigating threats related to an organisation’s information security, digital assets, and technology infrastructure.

This register offers a structured and proactive approach to managing cyber risks. It supports audit and risk committee members in meeting their responsibilities by providing clear oversight of cyber security risks, enhancing compliance, and strengthening assurance. With accurate and timely information, decision-makers can monitor risk exposure and ensure protective measures are aligned with the organisation’s objectives.

New Zealand organisations adopting cloud-based applications or SaaS platforms need to consider risks such as data security and privacy, data governance, third-party vendor management, cyber threats, and identity access controls. The reliability and stability of service providers become critical considerations.

Want to improve visibility and control over your cybersecurity risks? Contact Kaon Security to book a discussion about setting up and maintaining a cybersecurity risk register.