Building an Incident Response Plan Your Whole Firm Understands

Ransomware remains one of the most disruptive threats facing professional services firms, and accountancy firms are increasingly in scope given the financial data and payment access they hold. Having a clear, rehearsed incident response plan is often the difference between a contained disruption and a firm-threatening event.

What good incident response looks like

A workable plan names who does what in the first hour — who isolates affected systems, who contacts insurers and legal counsel, who communicates with clients — and doesn't rely on any single person being available. Regular tabletop exercises, where the team walks through a simulated incident, are one of the most effective ways to find the gaps in a plan before a real incident does.

Backups and recovery

A ransomware attack is only as damaging as your ability to recover from it. Backups need to be tested regularly, kept isolated from the primary network so they can't be encrypted alongside everything else, and reviewed against realistic recovery time objectives — not just 'we have backups' but 'we know exactly how long it takes to restore and we've proven it works'.

If your firm doesn't yet have a tested incident response plan, we can help you build one — and rehearse it before you ever need it for real.