Capabilities & Arsenal
We focus on dedicated, deep-dive investigations, threat hunting, and advanced incident response. Our model is built to augment your internal IT: your team uses our protocols to stabilize the immediate environment, while we step in to conduct deep forensics, identify root cause, and eliminate adversary persistence.
VesperDryft is not a 24/7 monitoring SOC. Response availability is structured around priority retainers (with contractually defined response windows) and best-effort response for non-retainer incident intakes. While deployed agents collect telemetry continuously, dashboards and client data are accessed only when you report an incident, during scheduled threat hunts, or on your pre-determined weekly reporting schedule.
Service Area & Pricing
- Remote DFIR & CIRT: Available nationwide across the United States. Remote telemetry and VQL triage (Velociraptor, Wazuh) let us investigate and contain incidents across your entire fleet regardless of physical location.
- On-Site Engagements: Physical collection, hardware triage, and on-site emergency response are available across North Dakota, with expanded regional coverage as the firm grows.
Service Rates & Pricing Framework
Every engagement is transparently scoped and tailored to your specific environment. Rather than forcing rigid enterprise packages, our pricing is custom-scoped based on four criteria:
- Size of the Organization: Tailored specifically for Sole Practitioners and Small Teams, SMBs, and Mid-Market / Regional organizations.
- Number of Affected Devices: Total endpoints, servers, and cloud workloads involved or requiring telemetry coverage.
- Depth of Service Required: From rapid operational triage and threat containment to deep timeline reconstruction, artifact analysis, and court-admissible forensic root-cause analysis.
- Number of Services Included: Standalone emergency incident response, ongoing compliance monitoring sprints, proactive threat hunts, or bundled advisory retainers.
Priority Incident Response Retainer
Eliminate catastrophic business downtime, emergency contracting friction, and surge pricing when a crisis strikes. A standing retainer provides guaranteed response SLAs, preferred hourly rates, and a direct line to a dedicated incident response specialist.
Retainer Structure & Service Posture
- Response Commitment: Guaranteed priority SLA response window defined contractually in your retainer agreement (contrasted with best-effort response for non-retainer intakes).
- Pre-Deployed Telemetry & Log Retention: Master Services Agreement (MSA) executed with Velociraptor and Wazuh pre-deployed across your environment, ensuring immediate query access and verified historical log retention the moment you call.
- Preferred Rates & Waived Mobilization Fees: Substantial discounts across all hourly services and flat-rate engagements, with emergency mobilization fees completely waived (including options to convert an emergency intake into a standing retainer).
- Proactive Defense Inclusions: Scheduled threat hunting sweeps, vulnerability and compliance reporting, regular advisory syncs, and annual staff training or tabletop simulations on higher tiers.
Incident Response & Investigation
When something is wrong, or you need proof that nothing is. Available on-demand or at retainer rates.
Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR)
Know with certainty what happened, whether regulated customer data was exfiltrated, and how to stop the adversary. We investigate both external cyber breaches and internal HR, Insider Threat & Intellectual Property (IP) matters—from tracking removable USB storage and unauthorized file access to investigating endpoint and browser telemetry for confidential data uploaded into unauthorized AI tools or agents. We rapidly contain active threats, eliminate persistence, and deliver legally defensible root-cause analysis—empowering decisive action under statutory reporting clocks.
TECHNICAL DELIVERABLES:- Containment and Eradication verification report
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documenting the entry point
- Blast Radius quantification (listing all affected systems)
- Fleet-wide parallel VQL artifact sweeps and timeline reconstruction
- Internal HR and Intellectual Property (IP) theft investigations (USB device tracking, file exfiltration, and unauthorized AI tool/agent data uploads)
- Pre-packaged offline collector executables for rapid non-technical triage
- Lessons Learned consultations for risk mitigation recommendations
- Forensic image and artifact collection preserved to evidentiary standards
- Coordination with breach counsel under tripartite agreements in eligible circumstances
Threat Hunting
Verify that stealth adversaries and dormant backdoors are not lingering in your network. We conduct hypothesis-driven sweeps across your entire fleet to uncover covert persistence that automated security products miss.
TECHNICAL DELIVERABLES:- Hunt Summary report detailing the hypothesis and findings
- List of identified Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
- Persistence check verification across the fleet
Vulnerability & Compliance Monitoring
Ongoing visibility without a 24/7 alert firehose: prioritized findings and audit-ready evidence on a weekly, monthly, or on-demand cadence (requires an active standby retainer to maintain dedicated agent telemetry).
Vulnerability Monitoring
Cut through alert noise and patch paralysis. We provide a disciplined, prioritized remediation roadmap targeting vulnerabilities that adversaries actually exploit, satisfying cyber insurance renewal questionnaires without overwhelming internal IT.
TECHNICAL DELIVERABLES:- Weekly or On-Demand vulnerability assessment reports
- Prioritized remediation list based on actual risk
- Per endpoint: configuration drift analysis
- Per endpoint: hardening recommendations
Compliance Monitoring
Pass your next regulatory audit with continuous, exportable proof. We continuously measure your environment against mandatory security benchmarks (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST), eliminating weeks of manual evidence-gathering and audit panic.
TECHNICAL DELIVERABLES:- Weekly or On-Demand Compliance Gap reports
- Per Endpoint: policy violation summaries
- Audit-ready telemetry logs and configuration proofs
Consulting & Training
Strengthen your team, harden your architecture, and validate your plans before the next incident.
Cybersecurity Consulting
Practical security engineering that unblocks internal IT and satisfies executive risk tolerance. We help you design resilient architecture, harden critical assets, and build pragmatic policies that prevent breaches without buying unnecessary software shelfware.
TECHNICAL DELIVERABLES:- Security recommendations backed by experience
- Custom security roadmap and prioritization plan
- Incident Response Plan guidance and review
- Custom tabletop exercises for technical staff and executive stakeholders to identify policy and procedure weaknesses at all levels
Cybersecurity Training
Transform your internal IT staff into a prepared first-response team. We train your engineers to correctly stabilize compromised systems and preserve volatile forensic evidence instead of accidentally destroying the artifacts needed for insurance and legal recovery.
TECHNICAL DELIVERABLES:- Customized training plans for internal staff
- Specialized workshops to improve individual weaknesses
- Deep-dives into forensic artifacts to improve investigation and response capabilities
Scope an Engagement
Tell us what you need covered, from a standing retainer to a single investigation, and we'll give you a real estimate for your environment. If you are dealing with an active incident right now, start with the First Responder Protocol while we coordinate.