Sylvan Assurance Incident Response · Free Edition ← Free assessments
Free incident-triage assessment

The first four hours decide how bad it gets.

A few minutes of structured triage for the first hours of a real incident. It helps you avoid the costly first-hour mistakes that make a bad day worse. Two paths: infrastructure incident, or product vulnerability. Runs in your browser; no email needed.

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Triage a live incident — without us ever seeing your answers. Everything stays in your browser. Nothing about your answers is transmitted or tracked.

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  1. Right-click this page and choose Inspect, then open the Network tab.
  2. Start the assessment and answer a few questions.
  3. Watch the list: nothing leaves the page while you answer — your answers stay on your device.
What does this assessment cover?

Two paths. The triage splits into an infrastructure-incident path (ransomware, business email compromise, lost device, vendor breach) and a product-vulnerability path, so the priorities match what you're actually facing.

What you get. A four-hour priority sequence, a do-not-touch list for the first hour, and the regulatory clocks that may apply — drawn from widely recognised incident-response practice.

What it isn't. This is general guidance for a fast-moving situation, not a professional incident-response engagement and not legal advice. Responsibility for your response remains with you.

Start here — the free edition

Version 1 · Updated 2026-07-21

For whoever would pick up the phone at 2am and wants to know what the first four hours look like before they happen.

When you have worked through this, you will have: your free readiness result, and a battle-card printed and on the wall. Download this as a PDF.

The one guide
The First 4 Hours Battle-Card
PDF · 15 min to read, then print it · Whoever would pick up the phone at 2am
Two printable pages — one for an infrastructure incident, one for a vulnerability report against something you ship — each covering the first fifteen minutes, the next hour, what to avoid, and the clocks that may already be running.
Reach for it when: Now, on a calm day — and again as the first page you reach for if something happens.
You finish with: A printed page on the wall, and a working idea of what the first four hours look like.
The interactive assessment — a short questionnaire that scores where you stand and points at the gaps.

When you outgrow the free tier, the Solo toolkit turns the battle-card into a worked first response — the triage runbook, the decision log, and the communication templates — with a Start here catalog to sequence them. See the Solo, Commander and PSIRT CRA-Ready editions →

When you're ready for the full toolkit

The full edition gives you the complete toolkit.

Everything behind this free assessment — the working documents, templates, runbooks, and depth to put it into practice. Three editions to fit how you work.

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