Incident Response Investigation

Put Verizon’s extensive incident response expertise and global threat intelligence to work as part of your cyberdefense to help accelerate response, minimize damage and speed recovery.

React. Respond. Recover.

Breaches happen. But effective preparation and response means you can recover faster. Our worldwide presence of more than 230 investigators, forensics lab technicians, intelligence analysts and support personnel conduct approximately 700 engagements per year, including some of the largest breaches on record. Put that expertise to work for your organization and help protect your assets, reputation and bottom line. 

Our products and tools

Incident Response Planning

Develop an incident response plan that anticipates challenges, amplifies effectiveness and streamlines your decision-making processes. Our global network and extensive technology partnerships give us strategic and tactical cyberintelligence that few can match—and that we can put to work for you.

Response coordination

Identify gaps in your plan, define stakeholder roles, establish processes and increase executive awareness.

Continuous improvement

Test your plan against actual breach situations to highlight critical gaps in your system and provide a basis for improvement and investment.

Data Breach & Cyber Incident Investigation

Data Breach and Cyber Incident Investigation helps you minimize the time to contain a breach and accelerate recovery in your time of need, whether on demand or on retainer.

Threat visibility

Identify gaps in your plan, define stakeholder roles, establish processes and increase executive awareness.

Contextualized analysis

Get classification and analysis of security incidents to help identify malicious reconnaissance, attack patterns and potential data exfiltration throughout your network environment.

Post Incident Support

Confidently manage future exposure with essential post-cyberincident activity. Our team of post-incident support experts help you manage concluding activities around after-action assessments, legal team support and response plan adjustments.

Recovery validation

Gain increased confidence from third-party incident recovery validation of specific cyberincidents or general response-policy limitations.

Legal support

Manage financial, legal, regulatory or brand exposure from a cyberbreach with professional preservation of evidence, expert testimony or e-discovery support.

Resources

2025 Data Breach Investigations Report

Today’s threat landscape is shifting. Get the latest updates on real-world breaches and help safeguard your organization from cybersecurity attacks.

2024 Payment Security Report

Learn how to get to the root of your payment security strategy to better address PCI DSS v4.0 compliance requirements.

2025 Mobile Security Index

Learn about the latest mobile security threats and how to help protect your organization.