Northwall supports cyber incidents where the organisation needs more than a generic breach checklist or a purely legal wrapper around technical work. The work usually begins before facts are complete, while security, legal, operational, insurer, and board pressures are all arriving at once. Northwall provides full-service technical and legal incident response, from the first hours of triage and forensics through restoration, remediation, and post-incident follow-through.
Why solicitor-led
A solicitor-led response is not about legal taking precedence over technical. It is about ensuring that the investigation, including the frank assessment of what happened and why, is protected by legal professional privilege from the outset.
Without that protection, the organisation's own investigation materials can be compelled by regulators, disclosed in litigation, or surfaced through subject access requests. Privilege does not prevent transparency; it gives the organisation control over how and when findings are shared, on a basis it has chosen rather than one imposed upon it.
Northwall maintains privilege throughout the engagement: from how technical work is scoped and documented, through how external providers are instructed if needed, to how communications with regulators, insurers, and stakeholders are structured.
What the work looks like
We help leadership establish control of the response early:
- who owns the key decisions
- which technical facts can actually be relied on, and which remain uncertain
- what systems, identities, or data are affected
- what needs to be contained immediately
- how evidence is preserved to a forensic standard from the first hours
- what needs to be investigated to scope the compromise properly
- how legal and technical inputs are combined into a single picture
- what can be restored first
- what has to be eradicated before recovery proceeds
- what gets documented
- what needs to happen before notifications or escalations
That structure matters as much as any individual work product. It is what keeps the organisation from creating avoidable confusion in the first 24 to 72 hours.
Where Northwall fits
Northwall is strongest where the response needs to hold together across multiple fronts: live technical forensics, containment, eradication, recovery, restoration, external advisors, regulatory notification, insurer coordination, management judgement, and executive communications.
Northwall's cybersecurity expertise is not abstract. It is grounded in software development, systems architecture, network administration, cyber hunting, and remediation experience. In practice, that means we can engage directly with cloud infrastructure, identity systems, application architecture, logs, and telemetry; challenge weak assumptions; and see alternative paths to getting systems operational again in the shortest realistic time.
That depth allows us to help leadership understand what is technically confirmed, what remains uncertain, and what needs to happen next, without the filtering that often occurs when technical findings pass through multiple layers of supplier and management interpretation.
We help the organisation move with pace, without losing control of either the technical response or the record that may later need to be defended. Northwall can lead the technical response directly or integrate specialist providers under privilege where needed, but we do not sit outside the real incident work.