Oct 19 Β· Week 4 β€” Detect, Investigate & Respond

🚨 DFIR

When an Incident Happens: Your First 60 Minutes Matter

Day 19 Β· Oct 19

πŸ›‘οΈ CyberSecurity Month 2026 Β· WAIG Γ— DefenAI

🚨 First 60 Minutes

When an Incident Happens: Your First 60 Minutes Matter

Golden hour

60 min

Contain + preserve

Evidence

First

Before rebuild

Comms

Planned

Legal + PR aligned

  • β—†Triage
  • β—†Contain
  • β—†Communicate
  • β—†Preserve evidence
  • β—†WAIG Foundation: DFIR workshop and community drills.
  • β—†DefenAI Labs: Forensics and cybercrime investigation tooling.
  • β—†Suggested comms format today: Incident workflow.

Speed beats perfection in hour one

Walk through IR runbook tabletop

4-part action model

Governance Β· Technology Β· Resilience Β· Incident response

Practice first-hour containment, communication, and evidence preservation.

Governance

Define metrics: detect, respond, recover for DFIR.

Technology

Validate controls with BAS, purple team, forensics tooling.

Resilience

Measure MTTD/MTTR improvements quarterly.

Incident response

Run tabletop + technical drill for DFIR.

Today's flow

  1. 1

    Understand

    Why DFIR matters for your organization today.

  2. 2

    Assess

    Map assets, owners, and gaps against today's theme.

  3. 3

    Act

    Update IR contact tree.

  4. 4

    Share

    Publish learning internally and on social β€” #CyberSecurityMonth2026.

Did you know?

  • πŸ’‘When an Incident Happens: Your First 60 Minutes Matter
  • πŸ’‘Mission: Practice first-hour containment, communication, and evidence preservation.
  • πŸ’‘Frameworks to explore: NIST SP 800-61, MITRE ATT&CK, SANS IR.

Frameworks & standards

NIST SP 800-61MITRE ATT&CKSANS IR

Organizational checklist (infographic summary)

  • βœ“Update IR contact tree.
  • βœ“Pre-authorize forensic imaging steps.
  • βœ“Share today's infographic with one community audience.
  • βœ“Log one improvement in your risk or incident tracker.

Audience awareness infographic

Eight communities Β· one mission

Tap a card for tailored awareness and today's action β€” built for sharing.

Practice first-hour containment, communication, and evidence preservation. As an employee, when an incident happens: your first 60 minutes matter affects every inbox, device, and customer record you touch.

Share: Employees: Day 19 β€” DFIR. #CyberSecurityMonth2026 #ResponsibleAI

One-click publish

Share Day 19 externally

LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, Facebook, and X β€” captions tailored for this theme (employees).

Select an audience, then use one-click publish to tailor the share caption for that community.

Mission

Practice first-hour containment, communication, and evidence preservation.

Organizational actions

  • βœ“Update IR contact tree.
  • βœ“Pre-authorize forensic imaging steps.

Partner angles

WAIG: DFIR workshop and community drills.

DefenAI Labs: Forensics and cybercrime investigation tooling.

Suggested format: Incident workflow

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