Cybersecurity World Asia 2025 - Blackpanda

Blackpanda is a Lloyd’s of London–accredited insurance coverholder and Asia’s leading local cyber incident response firm, delivering end-to-end digital emergency support across the region.
Blackpanda pioneers the A2I (Assurance to Insurance) model — uniting detection, response, and insurance into a seamless pathway that accelerates recovery and strengthens resilience.
Through expert consulting, response assurance subscriptions, and integrated cyber insurance, Blackpanda helps organisations prepare, respond, and recover from cyber attacks — all delivered by local specialists working in concert.
Their Mission is clear: to bring complete cyber peace of mind to every organisation in Asia, from the first moment of breach through full recovery and beyond.

Services and Solutions

1. Emergency Incident Response

Blackpanda’s Emergency Incident Response service provides rapid, expert support to organizations facing active cyber threats. Acting like digital firefighters, their local teams across Asia respond within hours to contain attacks, identify threats, and restore operations. The process includes isolating affected systems, investigating the breach, and minimizing financial and reputational damage. Their structured response workflow—identify, analyze, contain, and report—ensures swift action and clear communication. The ultimate goal is to protect sensitive data, reduce downtime, and help businesses recover quickly while strengthening long-term cyber resilience.

2. Digital Forensics

Blackpanda’s Digital Forensics service specializes in uncovering, preserving, and analyzing electronic evidence to investigate cyber incidents and support legal or regulatory processes. Their experts use advanced tools and techniques to extract data from compromised devices, reconstruct events, identify attacker tactics, and expose vulnerabilities. The service includes interim updates, executive briefings, and a final report that is both actionable and court-admissible. Blackpanda also facilitates communication with legal teams, regulators, and PR agencies, ensuring a comprehensive and professional response to digital crimes.

3. Proactive Incident Response Consulting Services

From readiness assessments to rapid response, Blackpanda safeguards your operations against cyber threats, minimizing downtime and impact with a comprehensive range of incident response consulting services.

a. IR Plan and Playbook development

Customise or refine a comprehensive, organization-wide strategy for detecting, responding to, and recovering from cybersercurity incidents. This plan serves as the foundation for your incident response process, detailing roles, responsibilities, and key procedures. This engagement also includes the creation or refinement of detailed scenario-specific playbooks. These playbooks outline the step-by-step procedures for responding to various types of cyber incidents and serve as practical, actionable extensions of your broader incident response plan.

b. Tabletop Exercise (TTX)

A group simulation of real-world cyber incident scenarios where participants work together to identify and respond to a potential incident. This is an invaluable tool for testing an organization's ability to handle crisis situations effectively.

c. Purple Teaming Exercises

Collaborative security assessments that combine the skills of both red (offensive) and blue (defensive) teams. The objective is to enhance your organization's security posture through real-time cooperation between attack simulation and defense.

d. Compromise Assessment

A comprehensive security audit of your internal environment, applictions, infrastructures, and endpoints. This assessment aims to search for malware that has attempted or successfully compromised your network, providing insights on which vulnerabilities have been exploited.

e. Threat Hunting

Proactive security measure that employs a methodology-driven approach to uncover hidden threats in your environment. At Blackpanda, we use hypothesis-driven searches for specific threat actor's Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), combined with insights from our extensive incident response experience.

f. Dark Web Monitoring

Our service actively monitors popular open and closed forums for mentions of your company, its IP, or data. This proactive approach can help detect breaches early by monitoring initial access brokers and potential data leaks.

g. Employee Offboarding

A thorough examination of all actions taken by departing employees on their computers, detecting any suspicious activity and safeguarding your sensitive information. This process can also be conducted continuously to detct early signs of potential risks.

h. After Action Review

In the aftermath of a cyber incident, understanfing what went wrong and how to improve is critical for managing future risks. It provides a thorough evaluation of your team's incident response efforts to identify areas for improvement and strengthen your overall security posture.

4. Cyber Insurance

Through our underwriting arm—Blackpanda Underwriting, Asia’s first and only pure cyber Lloyd’s of London coverholder—we offer bespoke cyber insurance solutions designed to complement our incident response services. Backed by leading global carrier Chaucer, our coverage includes financial indemnity and value-added access to Blackpanda’s expert IR team, ensuring rapid, coordinated response and recovery in the event of a breach.

Tiering and Packages

Blackpanda offers a flexible suite of response options through our proprietary platform, supported by one of Asia’s most experienced DFIR teams.

IR-1: Essential Cyber Emergency Response

IR-1 is a streamlined subscription designed for guaranteed access to our incident response team for essential triage and containment, delivered via our tech-enabled platform. A concise memo-style report is included as the standard deliverable.

IR-X Bundle: Comprehensive Emergency Response and Proactive Consulting Hours

IR-X is Blackpanda’s flagship bundled subscription that combines IR-1 with a pool of Incident Response Retainer (IRR) hours, enabling clients enhanced digital forensics and investigation work—all delivered via our tech-enabled incident response platform. This integrated approach allows organisations to respond swiftly during a crisis and continue engaging proactively to build long-term cyber resilience.