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DFIR
Focused digital forensics, incident investigation, and readiness services for high-consequence situations.
Gruve supports organizations when suspicious activity must be validated, sensitive matters require
defensible fact-finding, or incident-response plans need to be tested before a real event. Engagements are
scoped to the client’s question, available evidence, environment, and decision timeline.
Why Gruve
Evidence-led investigation for
modern security teams
AI-assisted speed, defensible evidence collection, and executive-ready
reporting that help organizations investigate incidents with confidence.
AI-Assisted,
investigator-validated
Gruve uses AI to accelerate evidence organization, signal clustering, summarization, and report preparation. Investigators validate source evidence, determine significance, and own every conclusion.
Built for
decision-makers
DFIR findings must support action. Gruve reports explain what is known, what is not yet known, what evidence supports the conclusion, and what should happen next — in language technical teams, executives, counsel, insurers, and boards can use.
Focused
investigative expertise
Gruve brings particular depth to macOS-heavy environments, sensitive workplace and executive matters, early incident validation, and focused compromise assessments. Each engagement is scoped around the client’s question and the evidence needed to answer it.
When to engage?
Identify the right moment
to engage DFIR
Is this suspicious activity real?
A suspicious alert, unusual login, vendor notice, insurer inquiry, or executive concern needs fast validation.
Are we clean enough to brief leadership?
A board, audit, insurance, M&A, post-change, or customer assurance request requires evidence-backed current-state confidence.
Has our AI environment been abused?
Prompt logs, MCP servers, AI plugins, system prompts, AI identities, and audit trails need compromise-focused review.
What happened on this MacBook?
An Apple endpoint, executive device, HR/legal-sensitive matter, or evidence preservation issue requires macOS-aware handling.
Does our incident response plan actually work?
Your IR plan exists, but Security, Legal, HR, Communications, and executives have not tested how they make decisions together under pressure.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about
Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR)
What is Compromise Validation?
Compromise Validation is a fast, focused engagement for the period between suspicion and full incident declaration. It reviews the most relevant evidence sources to determine whether compromise is substantiated, not substantiated, or requires escalation.
How is Proactive Assurance different from incident response?
Proactive Assurance is used when there is no declared incident but leadership needs evidence-backed confidence. It reviews priority endpoint, identity, SaaS, cloud, and administrative surfaces for hidden compromise, suspicious behavior, control drift, or policy violations.
How is a tabletop different from a policy review?
A tabletop tests whether people can make decisions under realistic pressure. Gruve uses decision-forcing scenarios to test declaration, escalation, legal involvement, insurer notification, communications, and executive coordination — then documents gaps in an After Action Report.
Do you support macOS investigations?
Yes. Gruve supports macOS evidence preservation, workplace/HR-legal investigation, and security incident investigation for Apple-heavy environments, executive devices, and sensitive matters.
Can Gruve help with HR or legal-sensitive matters?
Yes. Gruve supports corporate, civil, regulatory, HR/workplace, and counsel-directed matters. Engagements may include evidence preservation, activity reconstruction, focused device analysis, and defensible reporting. Gruve does not provide criminal-defense or law-enforcement investigative services.
What is an AI Compromise Assessment?
It is a forensic review of deployed AI environments for evidence of abuse, manipulation, unauthorized access, or compromise. Gruve reviews prompt logs, MCP manifests, AI tool configurations, audit trails, system prompts, and supply chain indicators where available.
How does Gruve use AI during DFIR engagements?
AI helps accelerate evidence organization, clustering, summarization, pattern review, and reporting preparation. Investigators validate source evidence, determine significance, and own findings and conclusions.
What deliverables do clients receive?
Deliverables vary by service but may include validation briefs, executive summaries, technical findings reports, After Action Reports, evidence summaries, timelines, scope assessments, remediation guidance, readiness roadmaps, or AI-specific IOC recommendations.
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every second counts
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understand the scope, and receive expert guidance on the next steps.