Sygnia Recognized for the Fourth Consecutive Year in the Gartner 2025 Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Retainer Services
DFIR services enable organizations to pre-arrange external expert assistance that accelerates containment and minimizes the impact of a major cyber-attack. This marks the fourth consecutive year Sygnia has been recognized by Gartner in this category.
Sygnia was named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Retainer Services (DFIR).
The Market Guide highlights cybersecurity vendors that have garnered the most interest from Gartner clients over the past 12 months.
To be included in the guide, organizations must offer:
- Pre-incident design and assessment of IR policies and procedures,
- Post-incident response assistance including forensic collection, examination and analysis to build a timeline of the incident, determine scope of compromise and root cause analysis, and
- Prepaid retainers for access to incident response capabilities within an agreed-upon response time.
Sygnia DFIR services can be accessed in 4 different ways:
- Ad hoc incident response engagement in response to an incident,
- Prepaid incident response retainer (IRR) services, which include a set number of prepaid IR hours at a discounted rate, with the ability to repurpose the prepaid hours for a range of proactive services,
- SLA-only retainer, providing organizations access to agreed-upon response times without purchasing prepaid hours, and
- Bundled with Sygnia MDR, ensuring speed of response in event of a complex MDR-detected incident which requires a greater level of response effort.
4 Factors Set Sygnia’ s DFIR Services Apart
In today’s digital battleground, cyber threats don’t come with a warning—they strike with precision.
Imagine this: A multinational corporation suddenly finds itself at an operational standstill. Systems are locked, sensitive data is held hostage, and a cyber-attack is unfolding in real time. Panic sets in across all levels of the business.
Organizations concerned about preserving their businesses, reputations, and futures trust Sygnia’s multi-pronged IR approach to help them beat attackers and return to business as usual—quickly and efficiently.
Sygnia works with organizations of all sizes, industries, and geographies. Whether it’s nation-state espionage, insider sabotage, ransomware, or business email compromise (BEC), Sygnia’s elite incident response team is ready to tackle and recover your worst day.
- Decades of Experience, Military-Grade Expertise
With deep-rooted military defender heritage, Sygnia IR experts come with nation-state level backgrounds and advanced threat research expertise—ready to dissect, combat, and neutralize even the most novel and sophisticated attacks.
- A Holistic Approach to Incident Response
Cyber crises are more than technical breaches, they are operational disruptions, reputational risks, and strategic battles. That’s why Sygnia takes a full-spectrum approach to incident response, executing and orchestrating among parallel workstreams, with end-to-end incident management.
 | Strategic Crisis Management to lead through crisis and provide accurate answers to stakeholders, employees, and the public. |
 | Investigation and Forensics to identify initial attack vectors, how attackers moved through the environment, and full scope of compromise. |
 | Tactical negotiations to minimize ransomware demands and accelerate investigation and recovery efforts. |
 | Remediation, recovery, and implementation support to help the organization return to business operations quickly and efficiently. |
 | Threat monitoring throughout and post-incident to ensure additional malicious activity and re-entry attempts are blocked immediately. |
 | Reporting and regulatory compliance reports to help clients meet regulatory reporting requirements and support legal action against identified attackers. |
All workstreams begin in parallel and are designed to reinforce each other. For example:
- Tactical negotiation is leveraged from the outset to gather critical intelligence and buy time, and
- Remediation efforts start on day one, focused on restoring business operations quickly by establishing secure, isolated environments (“secured islands”) to accelerate recovery.
- Purpose-Built Tools for Any Environment
Threats don’t discriminate—and neither does Sygnia’ s technology. Our purpose-built forensic tools, including the Velocity platform, and Pathfinder agent work seamlessly across Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, cloud, IoT, OT, and application environments.
The Velocity platform can ingest data from virtually any source, including client-developed tools. Pathfinder is a proprietary, lightweight agent that enables, enhances, and supplements binary data collection from servers and workstations.
- IT/OT Incident Response: Securing the World’s Most Critical Systems
For over a decade, Sygnia has mastered IT and OT incident response, safeguarding corporate IT infrastructures while securing operational technology (OT) environments. When cyber threats spill over into manufacturing plants, power grids, or transportation networks, Sygnia ensures resilience, recovery, and restoration.
Act Fast. Prepare Smart.
Let’s face it, cybersecurity incidents are inevitable. And while there is no good time for an incident, they inevitably strike at the worst possible time, like say, 9:29pm Friday, right before a big holiday. With a Sygnia Incident Response Retainer, organizations benefit from knowing that they have Sygnia’ s elite incident responders on speed-dial, ready to respond rapidly and effectively— with guaranteed response times. In addition, they benefit from pre-incident proactive services including tabletop and training exercises and adversary simulations such as Red Teaming and Purple Teaming.
To learn more about Sygnia’ s Incident Response Retainers, check out https://www.sygnia.co/solutions/incident-response-retainer/
Rena Stern, Director Solutions Marketing, Sygnia. (2025, August 10). Sygnia Recognized for the Fourth Consecutive Year in the Gartner 2025 Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Retainer Services, Sygnia.
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