SunCrest Law / Services / Incident response
The worst time to design a breach response is during a breach.
When an incident starts, the questions arrive faster than anyone can answer them. Is this material. Who has to be told, and within how many days. What do we say to customers before we know the scope. Who decides. A plan built in advance turns those into decisions with owners instead of a conference call with no agenda.
- You have an IT incident runbook but nothing that addresses legal obligations.
- You are public and have not worked through Item 1.05 materiality analysis in advance.
- You operate in multiple jurisdictions with different notification triggers and clocks.
- Your last tabletop was a long time ago, or has not happened.
The plan is the smaller half. The harder work is the notification matrix — which regulator, which customers, which deadline, in every jurisdiction you operate in — and, for public companies, the materiality analysis that has to run against a four-business-day clock while the facts are still moving.
The deliverables are built to be usable by someone who is tired, under pressure, and not a lawyer. That is the actual design constraint.
What you get
Every item below is a document or a working process delivered to your team — not a memo describing what one would look like.
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Enterprise incident response plan
Roles, escalation triggers, decision rights, and the interface between the technical response and the legal one.
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Breach notification matrix
Every jurisdiction you operate in, mapped to trigger, deadline, recipient, and content requirements.
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Disclosure decision tree
Materiality analysis and a Form 8-K template for public companies; a notification decision framework for private ones.
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Communications toolkit
Holding statements, customer and employee notice templates, and internal messaging drafted before anyone is under pressure.
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First-responder quick reference
One page. The first six things to do and the three things not to do.
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Tabletop exercise
Facilitated against a realistic scenario, with an after-action memo identifying what actually broke.
Annual tabletop and plan refresh, updates as your footprint changes, and incident-hour availability under a standing arrangement.
Ongoing work is arranged separately once the program is complete, so the decision to continue is made with the finished product in hand rather than at the outset.
Authored the enterprise incident response plan and appendix package for a NASDAQ-listed company, including a multi-country duty-to-notify matrix, a cyber-event materiality decision tree with 8-K template, a communications toolkit, and board-facing materials.
How this is priced
This program is quoted as a fixed fee, agreed in writing before any work begins. The scoping call that produces the quote is free and carries no obligation. Where a matter genuinely does not suit a fixed fee, that is said upfront rather than discovered at the first invoice.