Incident Response

Last Updated: Tuesday, 01 January 2017 02:43AM v091bh12


REOL Services Incident scale consist of several states:

  • Normal
    • Internal logging and ticket assignment, no Client participation required
  • Escalation
    • Abnormal or significant application performance level drop
    • KPI or metric anomaly or total KPI absence
    • Application error threshold breach
  • Emergency
    • Significant system breach
    • Significant and critical system resource loss (AWS cascading outage)
  • Containment
  • Recovery
  • Prevention and Reporting

In case of emergency state:

  • REOL Services will immediately inform the Client if there is an ongoing or attempted security breach into Client application infrastructure.
  • REOL Services will proceed with the application state change (live > standby) if we determine that Client space has been compromised.
  • REOL Services will immediately revoke all access credentials (IAM, 2FA, API auth tokens, KMS keys and SSH central authority) from both internal development teams and the Client.
  • We aim to provide initial event analysis to the Client as soon as the threat has been mitigated and application state restored.


Example Cases

  • Wide-band (MIRAI/IOT) DDOS attack >10Gbps, without active AWS Shield Advanced subscription
  • Application Level Penetration (not using AWS-WAF)
  • Third-party dependency vulnerability (blackbox)
  • Multi-level access-key leak, (missing passphrase on root PEM certificate)


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