EVIDENCE BRIEF
When the board asks what happened, answer with a record, not an estimate
After a security incident, the hardest questions are not technical. Leadership needs to know the scope, regulators need to know what data was affected, and insurers need documented facts. WireX EvidenceOps keeps months of network evidence and reconstructs incidents into plain-language findings those audiences can act on.
The problem: three audiences, one missing record
Most security stacks are built to raise alerts. They are rarely built to answer, weeks later and with confidence, exactly what an intruder did. When that record does not exist, every stakeholder gets an estimate.
Scope and impact
Was this contained, how far did it spread, and what do we tell customers?
Data affected
Which records left, whose were they, and do notification duties apply?
Documented facts
What is the timeline, and can the claim be supported by evidence?
An alert tells you something happened. Only evidence tells you what.
The approach: keep the evidence, then reconstruct the incident
WireX records network traffic continuously across on-premises, hybrid and cloud environments. Its Contextual Capture technology turns raw packets into readable sessions, files and user actions, and keeps up to 12 months of forensic evidence using compression, without shipping it to a vendor's SaaS storage.
When something is flagged, whether by WireX or by another security tool, the built-in incident response engine in Ne2ition NDR rebuilds what happened. The result is a timeline of who did what, where and when, written in plain language for security, legal and leadership teams.
WireX states that it retains 25 times more data history than conventional approaches and that incidents can be resolved in minutes rather than days or weeks. For an organization facing a deadline to notify or report, that difference decides whether the first statement is accurate.
The same evidence also supports proactive work: validating that network segmentation and zero trust access actually behave as designed, finding rogue assets, and spotting insider activity before it becomes an incident.
Retention plus reconstruction is what turns monitoring into proof.
Evidence: what a reconstructed incident gives you
| Who | The user account, device and identity behind each action | Answers the board's first question |
| What | Sessions opened, files accessed or moved, commands run | Establishes scope |
| Where | Systems and segments touched, on-premises, hybrid or cloud | Shows lateral movement |
| When | A timeline reaching back as far as the retained evidence | Supports notification decisions |
| Findings | A plain-language summary for non-technical readers | Shareable with counsel and insurers |
Exhibit A describes the categories of information EvidenceOps is designed to produce, as published by WireX.
Key findings
- Up to 12 months of forensic evidence retained, kept on your side rather than in vendor SaaS storage.
- Incidents reconstructed from WireX detections and from alerts raised by other tools.
- Findings written for boards, regulators and insurers, not only for analysts.
- In June 2026 WireX launched an Executive Cyber Risk program with insurance broker Brown and Brown, aimed at leadership-level cyber exposure.
Implementation
Evidence only helps if it was being collected before the incident. The sequence below gets capture in place early and makes sure the output reaches the people who need it.
- Map the environmentIdentify the network segments and cloud workloads where evidence matters most.
- Place captureDeploy WireX so traffic is recorded continuously and retained on your side.
- Connect existing alertsLet incidents raised by your other security tools be reconstructed with WireX evidence.
- Agree the reporting pathDecide who receives findings: security, legal, executives and your insurer.
The best time to start collecting evidence is before you need it.
Recommendation
Organizations that would struggle to answer their board, regulator or insurer within days of an incident should put continuous evidence capture in place now. your IT provider can deploy WireX EvidenceOps, connect it to the tools you already run, and work with you to rebuild and report on any incident, so the first account you give is the accurate one.
Recommended: an evidence briefing with your IT provider to assess today's gap.
Next step: find out what you could prove today
A short session to review what evidence your current tools keep, how far back it goes, and who could use it after an incident.
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