No plan to follow
When something breaks, no one knows who acts, or in what order.
INCIDENT RESPONSE
Incident response planning for regulated firms
A calm, tested response planning process for when (not if) something goes wrong. Built for law, accounting, and financial services firms to contain incidents, recover quickly, and protect clients.
The time to plan is before an incident occurs
Firms without a plan lose time deciding who does what while data and clients are on the line.
Slow to contain
Delays let an incident spread across systems and data.
Unclear duties
You’re unsure what to report, to whom, and by when.
Nothing learned
The dust settles and the same weaknesses stay open.
What our incident response planning service delivers
A good response is rehearsed, not improvised. We give you a tested plan, clear roles and the support to recover with confidence.
Fast containment
Limit the damage by acting early and decisively.
Clear roles
Everyone knows their job the moment it starts.
Confident reporting
Meet regulatory and client notification duties.
Quick recovery
Restore systems and data from tested backups.
Stronger after
Close the gaps the incident exposed.
Trust intact
Handle incidents in a way that keeps clients on side.
PRO DRIVE 360 METHODOLOGY
Pro Drive 360 – a structured, repeatable approach to IT
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Audit
Identifying the gaps
We audit your entire IT environment and critical business infrastructure, covering everything from cyber security and compliance to core systems and tools like AI. By benchmarking your systems against our evolving standards, we provide a clear risk assessment of your current technical infrastructure.
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Roadmap
Prioritising actions
We translate your risk assessment into a strategic IT roadmap built around your business goals and modern industry developments. This strategy provides clear, costed plans that prioritise the exact actions required to maintain compliance, unlock productivity gains, and support ongoing growth.
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Align
Meeting the standard
We technically align your IT to our best practice standards to rapidly reduce risk and immediately unlock productivity gains. In parallel, we maximise your IT investment by progressing towards key milestones on your strategic roadmap. These concurrent workstreams mean you’re covered today and set up for success tomorrow.
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Enforce
Maintaining the standard
We keep enforcing the highest standard of IT for your firm by continuously monitoring, auditing and updating your environment as our set of best practice standards evolve - with the latest regulations, new cyber threats and application updates.
How to respond when it counts
Response plan
A documented plan for who does what, and when.
Containment
Act fast to secure help to isolate systems and limit the spread.
Investigation
What happened, how, and what was affected.
Recovery
Systems and data restored from tested backups.
Notification support
Help meeting regulatory and client reporting duties.
Post-incident review
Lessons captured and defences strengthened.
Designed for law, accounting and financial services firms
Our response planning framework reflects the data, systems and reporting duties of your sector, so containment and recovery fit how your firm runs.
How incident response helped firms like yours
25+
years supporting professional services firms
200+
factors assessed through the governance model
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Stewart & Co Accountants LLP are a long established accountancy firm based in Camberley, Surrey and are well known for their professional, friendly approach and accurate, honest advice to clients across a variety of sectors.
- Problem
Stewart & Co were running a traditional on premise server based IT infrastructure and recognised the need to modernise to provide a flexible and scalable platform.
- Solution
Pro Drive IT delivered a comprehensive Microsoft Azure cloud migration project, replacing all legacy servers with modern cloud hosted infrastructure.
- Outcome
Improved security posture with modern endpoint protection and advanced cloud backup and disaster recovery and streamlined user experience with single sign-on across devices and services.
Explore other ways Pro Drive can strengthen your IT
Cyber Security
Protect your firm from evolving threats and reduce security uncertainty.
Strategic IT Planning
Create a roadmap for better technology decisions and predictable investment.
Microsoft 365 & Cloud
Make Microsoft 365, cloud platforms and collaboration tools work properly.
Ready to act before something goes wrong?
Start with a readiness review of your systems, backups and response plan.
FAQS
Common questions about our incident response planning service
Anything from a suspected phishing compromise or unauthorised access to ransomware, data loss, or a system that’s behaving in a way you can’t explain. Being slow to act is one of the most common ways firms lose control during a crisis, so it’s always better to raise it early than wait for certainty.