Proactive assessments to identify your ransomware vulnerabilities and response retainers that guarantee expert help when you need it most. Because the time to prepare for a ransomware attack is before it happens.
A comprehensive evaluation of your organization's ability to prevent, detect, and recover from ransomware attacks. We assess eight critical domains and deliver a prioritized roadmap to close gaps before attackers find them.
Review of EDR/AV coverage, network segmentation, lateral movement controls, and detection capabilities. We identify gaps that ransomware operators commonly exploit during initial access and lateral spread.
Assessment of your backup architecture, immutability protections, offline/air-gapped copies, recovery time objectives, and actual restore testing. Backups are your last line of defense and we verify they work.
Review of privileged account controls, MFA coverage, service account hygiene, Active Directory security, and credential management. Compromised credentials are the top initial access vector for ransomware.
Evaluation of your IR plan, communication procedures, escalation paths, and team preparedness. We assess whether your organization can effectively contain and respond to an active ransomware event.
Every assessment includes comprehensive documentation to drive action and support cyber insurance requirements.
Executive summary and detailed technical findings across all eight assessment domains. Each finding includes risk rating, business impact, and prioritized remediation steps your team can follow immediately.
A quantified resilience score across all domains so you can benchmark your posture, track improvement over time, and demonstrate progress to leadership and cyber insurance underwriters.
Documentation package formatted for cyber insurance applications and renewals. Demonstrate the specific controls you have in place to potentially reduce premiums and satisfy underwriter requirements.
Pre-arranged incident response agreements that guarantee you have expert help available with defined response times when a ransomware event occurs. We maintain familiarity with your environment so response is faster when it matters most.
Pre-negotiated response time commitments so you are not scrambling to find help during an active incident. Tiered SLAs from 1-hour to 8-hour initial response based on incident severity and retainer level.
We maintain a profile of your environment, network architecture, critical systems, and key contacts on file. When an incident occurs, we already know your infrastructure and can respond faster.
Depending on your retainer level, receive quarterly threat briefings, annual IR plan reviews, advisory hours for ad-hoc security questions, and ongoing ransomware resilience guidance.
During an active incident, we provide triage and containment, ransomware variant identification, investigation and analysis, recovery planning, and coordination with insurance carriers, legal counsel, and law enforcement.
Insurers increasingly require ransomware readiness documentation for coverage. Our assessments provide the evidence underwriters need, and retainers demonstrate proactive incident preparedness that can reduce premiums.
Regulated industries face the highest ransomware targeting rates and the most severe consequences from downtime. Our assessments address both the technical and compliance dimensions of ransomware readiness.
Most SMBs do not have dedicated incident response capabilities. A retainer gives you access to experienced ransomware responders with pre-negotiated rates, so you are not searching for help during a crisis.
Our structured approach to ransomware prevention assessment
We define the assessment scope, identify critical systems and data, understand your current security stack, and establish timelines. You provide access to documentation and key stakeholders.
Hands-on evaluation across all eight domains: endpoint security, backup validation, identity management, email security, network controls, incident response readiness, user awareness, and governance.
Detailed ransomware readiness report with resilience scoring, prioritized remediation roadmap, and cyber insurance documentation. Live walkthrough with your team to discuss findings and next steps.
Post-assessment support to help your team implement recommendations. We answer questions, validate fixes, and can provide ongoing advisory through a retainer agreement.
Common questions about ransomware prevention and response
A penetration test simulates an attacker trying to break in. A ransomware prevention assessment evaluates your entire resilience posture, including controls that a penetration test does not cover: backup architecture, recovery procedures, incident response plans, user awareness, and cyber insurance alignment. Many organizations benefit from both.
Cyber insurance covers financial losses, but it does not provide instant technical response. Insurance breach coaches coordinate vendors, which takes time. A retainer ensures you have a responder who already knows your environment and can begin containment within hours, not days.
We begin with remote triage to assess scope and severity, then provide containment recommendations. We identify the ransomware variant, check for free decryption tools, investigate the initial access vector, and coordinate with your insurance carrier and legal counsel. Recovery planning and oversight follow containment.
Typically 2 to 4 weeks depending on scope and organization size. This includes stakeholder interviews, technical evaluation, and report development. We work around your team's schedule and minimize operational disruption throughout.
Let's discuss your ransomware readiness. We'll review your current posture, explain our assessment approach, and recommend the right combination of prevention and response services for your organization.
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