Cyber Incident Response Consulting for Businesses, Attorneys & Insurance Carriers
TVG Consulting provides incident response consulting when a business is facing a breach, an insider threat, email compromise, wire fraud, or ransomware — and needs a senior team that can contain the incident, document what happened, and get operations back. Every engagement is run by senior engineers, not junior helpdesk staff.
TVG Consulting is available 24/7 for cyber incident response in Los Angeles and Nashville.
Industries we support in incident response
TVG's incident response consulting spans regulated and high-risk sectors. We understand what a breach means for HIPAA notification, for counsel building a case, and for a cyber insurance claim.
Healthcare & Medical
Clinics, medical manufacturers, and covered entities — HIPAA breach assessment and 60-day notification support.
Legal & Law Firms
Firms as victims, and counsel who need technical documentation for active matters. Confidentiality protocols standard.
Nonprofits
Organizations with grant-funded compliance obligations and limited internal IT when an incident hits.
Manufacturing & Distribution
Multi-site operations, insider threat exposure, and OT/IT environments with undocumented access.
Accounting & Finance
BEC attacks targeting wire approvals — email thread forensics and credential exposure timelines.
Entertainment
Executive impersonation, account takeover, and high-visibility targets in the LA market.
Types of incident response we perform
Every incident response engagement below reflects work TVG has actually performed — not a menu of theoreticals.
Insider Threat & Privileged Admin Offboarding
Quiet discovery of a departing or suspected insider's access footprint, evidence preservation, and coordinated lockout — without tipping off the employee.
Business Email Compromise & Wire Fraud
Email header forensics, attacker session timelines, fraudulent transfer tracing, and bank recall / IC3 / law-enforcement coordination.
CEO & Executive Impersonation
Spoofing analysis and impersonation defense — investigating attacks that target executives and the staff who act on their emails.
Email Breach Post-Mortem
Determining what happened, when, and what was exposed — before audit log retention windows close.
Ransomware Containment & Recovery
Containment, backup restoration, environment rebuild, and documentation of entry point and exposure scope.
Dark Web Exposure Investigation
Credential and data exposure monitoring, coordinated with FBI InfraGard threat notifications.
Post-Incident Hardening & Remediation
Closing the gap that let the incident happen — identity, endpoint, email, and network hardening after containment.
Forensic Documentation for Litigation & Insurance
Timestamped incident reports, chain-of-custody records, and technical documentation for counsel and cyber insurance claims — with forensic partners when full examination is required.
Our incident response process
- Triage callActive or historical? Scope, urgency, and who else is involved — counsel, insurance, forensics.
- Preservation firstLogs, mailboxes, and images preserved before anything is changed. Nothing gets deleted that might matter later.
- Discovery & containmentMap the access footprint, contain the threat, cut attacker or insider visibility.
- InvestigationTimeline reconstruction: what happened, when, from where, and what was touched.
- DocumentationWritten report suitable for counsel, HHS notification, or a cyber insurance carrier.
- Hardening & monitoringRemediation roadmap and optional post-incident monitoring so it doesn't happen twice.
Incident response case studies
Real engagements, anonymized and generalized to protect client confidentiality. Names withheld; work product shown redacted. Each engagement produced the artifacts listed — scope frameworks, roadmaps, checklists, and reports delivered to the client.
Privileged IT admin departure with an unmapped access footprint
Referred through legal counsel and a forensic partner. A long-tenured IT administrator with privileged access across the environment — directory, cloud tenant, firewall, backups, vendor portals — gave notice on short timeline. Internal staff couldn't map the full access footprint, and leadership suspected questionable activity with company information.
A best-practices offboarding path under a hard deadline: preserve evidence without tipping off the employee, discover every point of access, and execute a coordinated lockout on the final day — while keeping the departure amicable and litigation options open.
Evidence preservation was executed before any account changes — protecting the client's litigation options without committing them to litigation.
CEO impersonation attack targeting finance staff
Attackers spoofed the chief executive's identity in emails directed at staff with payment authority — the classic setup for a fraudulent wire. The client needed to know whether accounts were compromised, how the impersonation was constructed, and how to shut the vector down.
Email header forensics to establish spoofing versus account takeover, a credential exposure check, and a hardened email security posture so the next attempt never reaches an inbox.
Email breach post-mortem for a HIPAA-covered nonprofit
Referred by a licensed physical security and investigations firm. The organization — providing behavioral health, medical, and social services — had experienced a suspected email breach and had mandatory compliance exposure: HIPAA, federal grant cybersecurity clauses, and HHS OCR requirements. Log retention windows were closing.
A time-sensitive breach post-mortem to establish scope, a structured IT and security assessment, and a board-ready cybersecurity roadmap the leadership team could act on and fund.
Independent IT and security review for a litigation firm protecting sensitive case data
A litigation firm handling high-value case recoveries wanted independent consulting eyes on its environment — security posture, access controls, and operational risk around the sensitive client data underpinning its practice. Not a managed-services handoff; a review.
A phased engagement: environment discovery, then a hands-on read-only assessment with zero changes to production, then a findings report with implementation candidates the partners could evaluate on their own terms.
Referred by litigation attorneys · CPAs · cyber insurance brokers · forensic & investigations firms
Credentials relevant to incident response
Incident response questions we hear most
What does TVG do first when a business calls about a cyber incident?
We establish whether the incident is active or historical. If active, we give immediate containment guidance and begin remote response — typically within 1–2 hours. Preservation of logs and evidence comes before any changes to the environment.
How fast can you respond in Los Angeles or Nashville?
TVG Consulting is available 24/7 for cyber incident response in Los Angeles and Nashville. Remote response begins within hours; on-site response in both metros is available same day in most cases.
Can your reports be used by our attorney or in litigation?
Yes. Our incident reports document the event timeline, affected systems, exposure scope, and remediation actions with timestamps. We maintain chain-of-custody records, work under attorney direction on active matters, and bring in forensic partners when full forensic examination is required.
Do you work with cyber insurance carriers?
Yes. We produce the technical documentation carriers require for claims — entry point, exposure scope, and corrective action — and we can review a denial against the technical record.
We suspect a current employee. Can you investigate without tipping them off?
Yes. Insider threat work is designed around discretion: quiet access discovery, evidence preservation, and coordinated lockout timed to the departure — without alerting the employee during the engagement.
The breach happened weeks ago. Is it too late to investigate?
Often no — but audit log retention windows close. Microsoft 365 and other platforms retain logs for limited periods, so the sooner a post-mortem starts, the more of the timeline we can reconstruct.
Is this a HIPAA-reportable breach?
That depends on the four-factor risk assessment HHS requires. We perform the technical side of that assessment and produce the documentation needed for the 60-day notification decision.
Do we have to sign up for managed services to get incident response?
No. Incident response consulting is a standalone engagement. Many clients do continue with TVG for post-incident hardening and monitoring, but the response work stands on its own.
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