Senior-led delivery
Every Reading engagement is led by a senior consultant — no junior pipelines, no resold capacity. British clients deal directly with the operators doing the work.
Incident Response · Reading, United Kingdom
Incident Response in Reading
Incident Response for British organisations operating in and around Reading. Incident response and retainer services for the moments where minutes matter — containment, forensics, communications and lessons-learned, on call when the page fires.
Median containment under 90 minutes on retainer — across Basalt engagements in the past 12 months.
Common pains in Reading
- No clear answer to "who do we call at 2am"
- IR plans that have never been tested under pressure
- Forensic capability stitched together during the incident
How we engage
- Retainer with named responders and SLA
- Tabletop and live-fire exercises tied to your tech stack
- Forensic readiness review across endpoints and cloud
- Post-incident review with engineering-grade root cause
Local context
Basalt delivers incident response to organisations across Reading and the wider South East region (population ~230k). Our delivery model combines remote operators with on-site work for sensitive engagements, and accounts for the realities of the local tech, finance sector.
Why Basalt for incident response in Reading
Mapped to United Kingdom context
Findings and roadmaps reference the regulatory environment your business actually operates in — Privacy Act, ASD Essential Eight, NCSC guidance, MAS TRM, as relevant.
On the frontier
Our active testing library tracks the threats Basalt sees across NZ, AU, UK and Singapore — including AI-augmented attack chains that most regional providers haven’t mapped yet.
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