Regardless of your company’s size, from an attacker’s perspective, you have financial resources or can be a conduit to another organization’s funds. Today’s average attack is often part of an advanced persistent threat (APT) that has been in a compromised environment for 200+ days. This is an Information Security risk which needs to be addressed in a proactive manner. Information Security is a process that moves through phases building and strengthning itself along the way. Security is a journey not a destination. Although Information Security has many strategies and activities, we can group them all into three distinct phases – incident prevention, detection, and response.
Each phase requiring strategies and activities that will move the process to the next phase. The dynamic growth of new threats attaching vulnerabilities requires timely adjustments to the methodologies in incident prevention, detection, and response cycle. A change in one phase affects the entire process. A proactive strategy adjustment in the incident prevention phase will adjust the detection and response activities. Lessons learned during the response phase will be addressed in the planning of incident prevention measures and detection configurations. Each phase must be designed with adequate capabilities and management oversight to ensure that each phase contributes the requisite weighted amount in the reduction of risk from cyber threats to the organization. Such is the case with the DRS I𝜋&r managed service.
DRS coined the term I𝜋&r, which stands for (I)ncident (P)revention (I)ncident (I)dentification and (R)esponse (IPii&r) recast as I𝜋&r. Why introduce another acronym in an overcrowded field? Because our service is deeper than MDR and more continuous and affordable than IR. As such, a new way requires a new name: I𝜋&r.
Incident Prevention, Incident Identification,
and Response I𝜋&r
A proactive approach to prevention, isolation, and response to keep environments compromise-free and isolate threats, preventing legal, reputation, financial and data losses. Putting I𝜋&r in place with good endpoint protection achieves a highly protected environment.

Traditional Incident Response
- YOU recognize YOU have a problem
- YOU must trigger YOUR incident response plan, incurring downtime, loss of revenue and significant expenses
- Incident response team deploys remediation tools POST exploitation, REACTIVELY establishing baselines, discovering anomalies, and isolating effected hosts
- Process is extremely time consuming. In fact, it can take 3-4 months, enabling the threat(s) to rapidly increase via lateral movements.
The Six Sigma Approach
- Six Sigma centers around the DMAIC process (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control)
- PROACTIVELY deploy relevant tools to define operating baselines via habitual environment sampling of what is normal in the environment
- PROACTIVELY measure the results against pre-defined baselines to identify potential threats
- PROACTIVELY analyze apps, user accounts, memory, yara scan, and all activity via our proactively deployed solution(s). Once analyzed, compare against the baseline to identify anomalies
- PROACTIVELY improve your security posture by isolating impacted hosts
- PROACTIVELY inject control measures to prevent the attack from returning
Six Sigma relies on statistical process controls to ensure uniformity across the environment. In this instance, uniformity in the beginning is about ensuring a compromise-free environment.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
Incident response is one of the most expensive cybersecurity offerings on the market, the primary reason being that insurance carriers for these firms carry the costs of remediation. To save money, many organizations assume that the protection they have against threats and their associated costs is sufficient. Unfortunately, that logic is faulty. Costs stemming from losses in reputation and revenues, fines and penalties from financial institutions, and legal costs to address the disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) go way beyond what insurance carriers cover.
Your brand is your promise and we help keep that promise to your clients. Your reputation, their reputation and identities are safeguarded to the highest levels possible. Financial, reputational, and legal losses can be overwhelming and can materially cripple an organization. A great deal of focus on incident prevention with preparation can minimize risks and magnitude of exposure to such losses.
Any combination of cybersecurity technologies can’t prevent 100% of attacks, but we have a truly proactive approach to seek out adversaries and eliminate them: I𝜋&r. The current state of the cybersecurity industry with regard to MDR is reactive in nature, putting the “response” aspect at the forefront. When response is the focus, we essentially sit back and wait for a threat to occur, and then remediate only after the threat is identified. We simply do not operate this way at DRS.
WHY CHOOSE US?
WE’RE DRIVEN BY VALUE INNOVATION
We’ve developed strategic partnerships and vendor relationships with industry experts to offer world-class tools at exceptional rates. We’re constantly scanning the market to modernize our services, thus equipping our clients with comprehensive solutions and an infallible security posture. We render the competition irrelevant through value innovation, thus opening market opportunities that have historically been untapped.
WE LISTEN
Protecting all aspects of your business is our priority. Our dedicated staff will coordinate an exhaustive consultation process with your team to understand your unique requirements. From the conception phase to post-project support, we promise to deliver custom solutions to suit your needs, every step of the way!
WE’RE FLEXIBLE
Whether you require a turn-key solution or select services to address gaps with your in-house security team, we’ve got you covered! Our polyvalent approach is designed to improve your on-premise and cloud-based cybersecurity posture, around the clock, no matter the size of your company, infrastructure and budget.
WE’RE INTERNATIONAL
We have multiple teams readily available and are constantly expanding to new markets. Along with our head office in Columbus (US), we have experts in London (UK), Montréal (Canada) and Copenhagen (Denmark).
WE GIVE BACK
We support organizations that have a positive impact in their communities. We invest in philanthropic programs and rally around charitable work and causes that are important, because it’s part of our core values.
In recognition of their service to our country, Dark Rhino Security actively seeks to recruit and employ veterans throughout its workforce. The brave service members who have served our nation’s interests deserve employment and academic opportunities, once their military service is at an end. We are very proud that almost 50% of our team have served our country
WE’RE QUALIFIED
Our team is highly certified and offers training. Because our field is constantly evolving, we prioritize ongoing education and invest in cutting-edge technologies to respond to emerging trends with razor-sharp precision. As a result, our skilled engineers can deliver in-depth cybersecurity training to professionals of all paths.

WE’RE INTERNATIONAL
We have multiple teams readily available and are constantly expanding to new markets.

WE’RE FLEXIBLE
Whether you require a turn-key solution or select services to address gaps with your in-house security team, we’ve got you covered!

WE’RE QUALIFIED
Our team is highly certified and offers training.
CASE STUDY
Client Success Story: How DRS Implemented a Robust IAM Solution with Minimal Operational Downtime
Client Success Story: How Dark Rhino Security Implemented a Robust IAM Solution on Complex Legacy Systems with Minimal Operational Downtime Our client, a major player in North American cross-border trade, has service locations at major gateways along the Canada-U.S. border, in addition to trusted logistics partners around the world. They help ensure on-time and cost-effective distribution of their customers’ goods and offer services to importers and exporters across the continent. They use real-time and innovative technology tools, web portals, and [...]