Practical Incident Response Readiness

Would your security basics actually hold during an incident?

Gooseframe gives small technical teams a clear, plain-English picture of where they stand — and exactly what to fix first. No pentest. No audit. No jargon.

Operator-led — by a working incident responder · Fixed scope, fixed price · 1–2 weeks, read-only evidence · Nothing touches production
The problem

The basics decide whether an incident is a bad afternoon or a bad quarter

Most small teams have security controls that are mostly there but unevenly enforced — and no one owns it full-time. That gap is exactly what turns a routine event into an expensive one.

Know where you stand

A readiness scorecard across identity, access, logging, backups, and incident response — rated honestly, in plain English your board and insurer can read.

Know what to fix first

Prioritized findings and a 30/60/90-day roadmap. Most fixes cost nothing but a decision and an afternoon.

Be ready for Day Zero

A break-glass packet and an IR handoff sheet you could hand a response firm on the worst day — so help can actually start working in the first hour.

The offer

Choose your depth

Every tier produces an executive-ready report and a prioritized action plan. They differ in how many domains are assessed and how much live, hands-on time is included.

Essential
Core Check
$750
  • 3 core domains: identity/MFA, backups, IR process
  • 1 leadership interview
  • Executive summary + Fix-First findings
  • Break-glass packet
  • Async delivery · ~1 week
Standard · most popular
Full Readiness
$1,500
  • All 8 domains + maturity scorecard
  • Up to 2 interviews
  • Full findings + 30/60/90 roadmap
  • IR handoff sheet (Day Zero)
  • Live findings readout call
Comprehensive
Readiness+
$2,500
  • Everything in Standard
  • Extended, multi-team interviews
  • 60-minute live working session
  • Written IR scenario walkthrough
  • 30-day follow-up check
The Gooseframe approach

Day Zero readiness

A signed IR retainer means someone answers the phone. Readiness means they can do real work the moment they do. In the first hours of an incident, responders need visibility first and authority second — every hour lost to logistics is an hour the attacker keeps moving.

Gooseframe assesses the things that actually decide response speed, and hands you the artifacts to close the gaps before you need them.

Read the Day Zero framework →

  • Pre-provisioned, tested responder access — not a scramble mid-incident
  • A 90-day logging floor, so the timeline isn't already gone
  • A platform & access inventory you can hand an IR firm on hour one
  • Decision authority and out-of-band comms, settled in advance
How it works

From call to clarity in 1–2 weeks

1

Kickoff

A short scoping call to confirm scope, contacts, and the read-only evidence we'll need.

2

Evidence & interviews

You share screenshots and settings; we interview your eng and ops leads. Nothing touches production.

3

Analysis

Findings are developed, scored, and prioritized into a realistic roadmap.

4

Report & readout

You get the report — and, on Standard and up, a live readout call to walk leadership through what to do next.

Who's behind it

An operator, not a checklist vendor

Joshua Geise
Joshua Geise, GCIH
Founder, Gooseframe LLC

Gooseframe is led by Joshua Geise, an incident responder who has spent the better part of a decade on the front lines of national cyber defense. He spent 5+ years in incident response at CISA — the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — working nation-state intrusions and critical-infrastructure breaches, and leading a response team during the SolarWinds incident, and now leads incident response at a global IR firm.

That means your review isn't a generic scan or a junior analyst with a template. It's the same judgment that's used on real, high-stakes incidents — translated into practical, plain-English steps a small team can actually act on.

GCIH — Certified Incident Handler CompTIA CySA+ CompTIA Security+ MS, Computing Security SANS Advisory Board

Find out where you stand

A 20-minute call is enough to scope it. No pressure, no jargon.

Times don't work for you? Email josh@gooseframe.net and we'll find one.