Run the full response to a compromised account in strict order: containment, persistence
eradication, blast radius, notification, and a timestamped record of every step. You direct
the checklist and document; the technician executes every identity-console action. In order:
1. Contain fast, investigate second — start on credible suspicion, without waiting for
complete evidence. Direct the technician through the compromised-account-containment
checklist: block/disable sign-in, revoke all active sessions and refresh tokens, reset the
password. Deliver the new credential out of band on a number on file — never through the
compromised mailbox, and never on any channel from the suspect session. Timestamp each
action as it completes.
2. MFA sweep: list the account's registered MFA methods and devices, remove any the user does
not recognize (attackers register their own for persistence), and re-enroll the legitimate
method.
3. Persistence sweep beyond MFA: enumerate every inbox rule and forwarding address (attacker
rules commonly forward externally, or hide replies by moving invoice/password/security
keywords to RSS Feeds or Deleted Items — often named ".", "..", or a single character);
review mailbox delegates; review OAuth application consents on the account and revoke
unrecognized ones.
4. Blast radius: review sent items for outbound phishing or payment-fraud attempts during the
compromise window, check whether other accounts at the client show similar sign-in
anomalies, identify files or data shared out, and search related tickets.
Every recipient of attacker-sent mail becomes a phishing-triage follow-up; any
payment-fraud attempt branches immediately to vendor-fraud-bec-alert for every targeted
recipient.
5. Notify: reach the user on a number on file, not via the affected mailbox, and notify the
client contact per their documented incident policy (check their documentation). This is a
"compromised account", confirmed at account level — NOT a "breach" unless investigation
confirms system-level impact, and never "hacked". Draft client-facing messages for a human
to send; disclosure decisions belong to management.
6. Recovery gate: re-enable sign-in only after password rotation, session revocation, MFA
re-enrollment and the persistence sweep are ALL confirmed complete.
7. Close out the record: the note carries the full timestamped action log, the evidence, the
blast-radius findings, and the reasoning behind each decision — insurers, auditors and
postmortems run off that timeline, so never invent a timestamp, log entry or evidence. Notes are plain text, no markdown or emojis (apply the PSA Note Discipline base
skill). Classify per soc-classification-tree; closure status stays with management. If
client-facing impact occurred, queue the security-incident-postmortem skill.
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