Incident Response Advisory

THE FIRST
48 HOURS
DEFINE YOUR
OUTCOME

Board-ready incident response programs for regulated industries. When a breach hits, you need a plan that was built before the alert fired. Not during it.

IR Retainer Consultation

Let's Talk About Your IR Plan

30-minute strategy session. No pitch. We assess your current IR posture and identify your three highest-priority gaps.

  • IR plan review and gap analysis
  • Regulatory compliance mapping
  • Retainer scope and engagement options
  • Immediate action recommendations
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Experience from
48hrs
Window that defines your breach outcome
First 48 CISO Principle
$4.4M
Average cost of a data breach globally
IBM Cost of Breach 2025
241
Average days to detect and contain a breach
IBM Cost of Breach 2025
15+
Years of cybersecurity industry experience
The Pearltech Group
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How We Work Together

Advisory
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Fractional CISO

VP to SVP-level cybersecurity leadership on a fractional basis. Strategy, board briefings, regulatory compliance, and program oversight for organizations that need executive leadership.

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Intelligence
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Board Briefings

Executive and board-level cybersecurity briefings that translate technical risk into business language. Built for regulated industries where board members need to ask the right questions.

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Built by Someone Who Has Been in the Room

Dianne Powers brings over a decade of incident response leadership across critical infrastructure, financial services, state government, and global enterprise environments.

Her career spans Deloitte, GE, Entergy, Tata Consultancy Services, Invesco, and J.P. Morgan. Today her primary client is a global asset management firm operating at the scale and regulatory complexity of BlackRock and Citadel.

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Principal
The Pearltech Group Founder and principal of a multi-brand technology and cybersecurity advisory firm.
GRC Lead
GE: Global GRC Lead Managed SOC attestations and compliance programs across England, Italy, Hungary, and the US.
IR Lead
Entergy: IR Lead IR playbook development and NERC CIP compliance for critical US power infrastructure.
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