ISO/IEC 27043:2015 · Incident Investigation · Evidence & Implementation Kit
Run digital investigations that hold up, without designing the process lifecycle from scratch.
Every ISO 27043 investigation process, from readiness and acquisition through analysis, reporting and the concurrent chain-of-custody processes that run throughout, handed to you as an adopt-ready procedure with the evidence that survives scrutiny.
Investigation-ready in a weekend, not after the breach.
Here is the honest situation. When an incident happens, the difference between evidence that stands up and evidence that gets thrown out is the process you ran before you touched anything. ISO 27043 defines that lifecycle: readiness, initialization, acquisition, investigation, and the concurrent processes, authorization, documentation, chain of custody and evidence integrity, that must run across every phase. Building those procedures and proving you followed them is the work, and a break in chain of custody is exactly what gets an investigation challenged.
This Kit removes that build. It is every ISO 27043 process written as an adopt-ready procedure you personalize in a weekend, with the evidence that keeps a finding admissible.
What you get, the moment you buy
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Processes as adopt-ready procedures. Every ISO 27043 process, from readiness and acquisition through analysis and reporting, plus the concurrent chain-of-custody, documentation and integrity processes, written so you personalize and operate it.
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Evidence-that-holds-up checklists. For each process, exactly the records that keep evidence admissible, plus where investigations get challenged, so you close the gap before it matters.
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Investigation Process Matrix, pre-built. Every process in a working spreadsheet, ready to record status, owner and evidence location across the lifecycle.
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Readiness Assessment. Score each process and the workbook returns your investigation readiness as a single percentage, and exactly what to build next.
Grounded in ISO/IEC 27043:2015, the five investigation process classes and the concurrent processes that run throughout, aligned with ISO 27037 and 27041. Editable Word and Excel files.
Readiness is what wins the case
Most of ISO 27043 is about what you do before an incident: authorization, documentation standards, chain-of-custody rules and evidence integrity. This Kit gets that readiness in place, so when something happens your investigation is defensible from the first minute.
What one control looks like
This is scenario definition and readiness risk assessment, where a defensible investigation begins. All 29 are built to this depth.
INV-1 Scenario definition and readiness risk assessment READINESS
Operate this process
[Organization] shall examine and document the probable scenarios in which digital evidence might be required, and shall perform a risk assessment for each scenario covering the threats, vulnerabilities and information assets involved. The output is a maintained set of defined scenarios that later readiness decisions on sources, retention and controls are traced back to, balancing risk against the cost and benefit of each readiness measure.
Investigator note.
Forensic readiness is a pre-incident investment: getting scenarios right decides whether the evidence you need even exists when an investigation later begins.
Evidence that holds up
- The documented set of defined investigation scenarios
- Readiness risk assessment records per scenario
- Records linking chosen readiness controls back to specific scenarios
- Review dates showing the scenario set is kept current
Common finding they raise: Readiness is bought as tooling with no scenario or risk basis, so logging and retention rarely match the incidents that actually occur.
Why this is not another template pack
- The evidence is the point. An investigation you cannot defend is worthless. This tells you the records that keep evidence admissible and where investigations get challenged, for every process.
- Concurrent processes run throughout. Chain of custody, authorization, documentation and evidence integrity are not a phase, they run across every step. The Kit builds them in the way the standard intends.
- Built on a mapped compliance corpus, not one person's opinion, from a graph of thousands of controls across standards.
- It compounds. ISO 27043 aligns with ISO 27037 evidence handling and 27041 investigation assurance, so this fits a complete forensic-readiness program.
Who buys this
Security, incident response and forensic teams, the leads who own investigation readiness, and consultants standing up a defensible process. Whether you are building readiness ahead of an incident or formalizing an existing capability, you save weeks and walk in with the lifecycle and evidence structured.
By the end of the weekend you will have
✓ An adopt-ready procedure for all 29 processes
✓ A completed investigation process matrix
✓ The evidence that keeps findings admissible
✓ Your chain-of-custody rules in place
✓ A readiness percentage and a build plan
✓ The challenge points designed out
Common questions
Is it really editable? Yes. Word and Excel files you own and adapt. No portal, no subscription.
What does ISO 27043 cover? The full digital investigation lifecycle: readiness, initialization, acquisition, investigation and the concurrent processes that keep evidence admissible.
How does it relate to ISO 27037? 27037 covers handling individual evidence items; 27043 is the overall process framework. They align, and the Kit references that link.
Is readiness really the focus? Yes. The largest process group is readiness, because a defensible investigation is decided by what you do before an incident.
What if it is not for me? A 30-day money-back guarantee.
Do not design the investigation process during the breach.
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