Logging gaps post-incident remediation plan

Overview

Post-breach, insurers and regulators ask what you could not see. Convert pain into funded logging backlog.

Discovery pass

Table: data source, current retention, coverage %, gaps (workstations, Firewalls, SaaS admin, RMM, DNS).

Priorities

• Auth logs (interactive + SSO + legacy).
• Egress patterns from servers holding sensitive data.
• Admin actions in cloud control planes.
• Endpoint process telemetry where EDR exists—expand license if islands of darkness caused delay.

Budget narrative

“Mean time to detect X hours without these feeds” — attach incident timeline anonymized.

Implementation

3-phase: quick wins (enable free diagnostics), SIEM onboarding, SOAR playbooks.

Validation

Quarterly inject test alert proving path end-to-end to on-call—not green checkbox in portal only.

Vendor management

MSP stack must log their actions—co-managed transparency clause.

Sign-off

Risk committee accepts residual gap list with dates or risk acceptance owner name.