Our team of technical specialists comprises respected security and investigative professionals from a diverse set of backgrounds, including police cyber-crime units, the security services and enterprise network specialists. Whatever issue we are tasked to solve, we have experienced, qualified and security vetted staff on hand to help you take back control.
Dominic is a seasoned security architect and infrastructure analyst with 30 years’ professional consulting experience across a wide range of public and private sector organisations. In the last five years, he has focused primarily on healthcare projects.
His career journey spans IT training, principal consultancy, and mastering Active Directory design and deployment, as well as advanced cybersecurity architecture. Renowned for his expertise in infrastructure diagnostics, he has built a reputation for delivering highly secure and resilient systems. Dominic holds a current UK national security vetting to SC level.
John heads up the Incident Response function at First Response, a role which sees him engage with multi-national clients at board level to create cyber defence strategies and incident response frameworks. When needed he will intervene during live incidents to track, thwart and remove external threat actors from client networks.
Specialising in cases involving server and systems breaches resulting in data theft. John holds a Master’s Degree in Forensic Science in the field of Forensic Computing as well as a current UK national security vetting to SC level.
Andrea spent 13 exemplary years with Greater Manchester Police as a Detective investigating internet child abuse in the pioneering Abusive Images Unit.
During that time she also trained as a forensic examiner of computers at the Royal Military College of Science and attended various EnCase forensic expert courses.
After leaving the GMP in 2004, Andrea founded Zentek Forensics Limited, supplying forensic digital investigation services mainly to law enforcement. She has conducted over 600 investigations involving computer-based evidence, and is an experienced expert witness.
Alastair is a Chartered Accountant with many years experience in helping businesses grow and achieve their potential.
He is the part time Managing Director of First Response, as well as Financial Director at Unibond Seafood International Ltd. His previous roles include Financial Director with Bespoke Foods Ltd, which was sold to Empire Bespoke Foods Ltd and with TAS Software plc, which was sold to the Sage Group.
We provide a range of data investigation services to clients, specialising in digital forensics, server breach investigation, incident response and malware reverse engineering.
Our security-vetted team have extensive operational experience gained within specialist Government departments, military units and commercial organisations, so their professional credentials, integrity and discretion are assured.
Due to their background and the often covert nature of the work our associates undertake, most prefer not to be listed on the public internet.
