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
Response within 24 hours. No spam, ever.
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 security leadership without a full-time hire.

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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. For six years she has concurrently served as a Cybersecurity Program Manager at a government agency while building The Pearltech Group.

Today her primary client is a global asset management firm operating at the scale and regulatory complexity of BlackRock, Citadel, and Carlyle.

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PRINCIPAL
The Pearltech Group: Principal and Founder Founder and principal of a multi-brand technology and cybersecurity advisory firm
GRC
GE: Global GRC Lead SOC attestations, annual assessments, compliance programs across England, Italy, Hungary, and the US
IR Lead
Entergy: Incident Response Lead IR playbook development and NERC CIP compliance for critical US power infrastructure
Manager
Tata Consultancy: Global IR Team Manager Managed globally dispersed incident response team with AMD as primary client
MANAGER
Deloitte: Advisory Services Specialist Master, Government Practice Consulted state government agencies on IR program development and optimization
Active
Current: VP/SVP Level Consultant Global asset management firm at the scale of BlackRock, Citadel, and Carlyle
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The Daily Breach Report

Today's Report Preview
Wednesday, April 29, 2026  |  Vol. 1, No. 3

After Mythos, The White House Called an Emergency Meeting

The National Cyber Director chaired an emergency session with major tech firms triggered directly by Anthropic's Mythos. FS-ISAC briefed financial services. Bruce Schneier called it the SATAN moment of the AI era.

Critical AI Threats GitHub RCE VECT 2.0 Patch Available
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