Incident Response & Threat Hunting

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Incident Response & Threat Hunting

DGC delivers agile, intelligence-driven incident response (IR) and threat hunting services that enable federal agencies to quickly identify, contain, and recover from cybersecurity incidents. Our IR teams operate in alignment with NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 2 and DHS Cybersecurity Incident Response best practices, bringing deep expertise in triage, containment, eradication, and recovery. DGC maintains predefined response playbooks and escalation protocols that ensure rapid coordination with federal stakeholders, minimizing operational disruption and data loss. Our analysts are trained to operate in high-impact and classified environments, ensuring mission-critical systems are protected and restored with minimal downtime.

In parallel with our incident response capabilities, DGC conducts proactive threat hunting using behavioral analytics, endpoint telemetry, and threat intelligence to uncover advanced persistent threats (APTs), insider activity, and stealthy malware. We leverage EDR platforms such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, as well as custom detection logic to uncover threats that bypass traditional defenses. By blending intelligence-led hunting with forensics and real-time telemetry, DGC helps federal clients close detection gaps, reduce dwell time, and build long-term resilience against evolving adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

Past Performance

The DGC team supports the USAID Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) and Forensics Program by performing enterprise-wide management of security incidents across 7 CONUS locations and 81 OCONUS missions in unclassified, USAID-managed network space, to detect, respond, remediate, and report all computer related incidents. This activity includes daily monitoring of USAID’s information systems, vulnerability remediation, intrusion detection, log reviews and malware tracking as well as providing cyber threat analysis to proactively preventing adversaries from accessing USAID systems. Additionally, assessment, identification, and remediation of cyber security incidents on 14,000 systems around the globe as well as compliance with mandatory reporting of all information security incidents through the proper authority is consistently achieved on a timely basis.