Incident Response and Forensic Teams as a Core Cyber Resilience Capability
Deployable Technical Capacity for Rapid Containment, Verified Recovery and Cross-Allied Coordination
Incident Response and Forensic Teams address a decisive operational vulnerability in allied cyber defence: the inability to contain, analyse and verify recovery from significant cyber incidents at operational tempo. In a continuously contested cyber environment, disruption is not an anomaly but an expected condition. When malicious activity affects defence-critical or dual-use systems, the decisive factor is not policy intent but whether deployable, properly authorised and interoperable teams can move from detection to containment, and from containment to trusted restoration, without losing evidentiary integrity. Without such capability, response becomes fragmented, recovery uncertain, and command confidence degraded, creating an operational dead zone between awareness and restored functionality.