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What is The Ransomware Readiness Assessment?
A 9 Step Process to Combat Ransomware
The Ransomware Readiness Assessment service offers a comprehensive approach to bolster your organisation against ransomware threats. Our method, leveraging the CIS framework, combines asset identification, vulnerability scanning, policy review, training, and continuous improvement to ensure a holistic defence strategy. Providing you with a new and improved resilience against Ransomware.
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What is Ransomware?
A Modern Cyber Threat
Ransomware is malicious software that can encrypt and lock your digital files, making them inaccessible until you pay a ransom to the attacker. Ransomware attacks have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, affecting businesses of all sizes and industries. These attacks can be financially damaging, as well as causing disruption and downtime for your operations.
That's why it's important to take proactive measures to protect your business against the threat of ransomware. By understanding what ransomware is and how it operates, you can take steps to safeguard your digital assets and mitigate the risk of costly attacks.
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Combat the Rising Danger of Ransomware
Why Should You Invest in Cyber Services to Combat ransomware?
Ransomware Attacks on The Rise
Recent reports show that ransomware attacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Businesses are advised to stay vigilant and take proactive measures to protect their digital assets.
The Financial Stakes Are High
As reported by The Economic Times, ransomware attacks can be incredibly costly for businesses. In addition to the ransom payments demanded by attackers, companies may face significant losses due to downtime, data recovery costs, and damage to their reputation.
Downtime is a Business Killer
Ransomware-induced downtime can cripple operations, leading to financial loss and damaged reputations. The costs of halted operations, ransom payments, and system restoration are substantial, underlining the critical need for robust cybersecurity and prompt incident response.
The Innovative Approach of Our Ransomware Readiness Assessment
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We combine real-life tabletop exercises with the creation of detailed playbooks to prepare your team for any eventuality.
Our human training programs foster a culture of cybersecurity awareness within your organisation, empowering your staff to become your first line of defence.
Our state-of-the-art vulnerability scanning tools identify potential weaknesses in your systems, allowing us to fortify your defences proactively.
By integrating these diverse strategies, we provide a comprehensive and robust ransomware defence assessment that not only identifies threats but also equips you with the knowledge and tools to counteract them effectively. This unique blend of services makes our approach one of the most effective and forward-thinking in the industry.
Our 9-Step Extensive Process
Our Assessment is a Thorough Process to Improve Your Ransomware Defence
1. Identify and Prioritise Critical Assets
Determine and prioritise critical data and systems in the organisation, based on their importance to business continuity and potential impact in case of a ransomware attack.
2. Capability Maturity Assessment (CMA)
Use the CMA questionnaire to assess the organisation’s security posture, identify gaps, and determine areas for improvement that can help strengthen the organisation’s ransomware defence capabilities.
3. Perform a Symbiote & External Scan
Assess various low-hanging issues across a provided scope on an internal Windows-based network using the Symbiote tool. The output of this tool will come in the form of multiple CSV and TXT files, indicating misconfigured settings and weaknesses across the assessed hosts.
4. Review Policies and Procedures
Assess and update the organisation’s existing policies and procedures related to data protection, backup and recovery, incident response, and user awareness training, to ensure comprehensive protection against ransomware attacks.
5. Conduct Tabletop Exercises
Evaluate the organisation’s readiness to respond to a ransomware attack by involving various stakeholders from IT, management, and other relevant departments in tabletop exercises to identify gaps and areas for improvement.
6. User Awareness Training
Improve the organisation’s overall ransomware defence by providing regular user awareness training to employees, focusing on recognising and reporting potential ransomware threats, as well as following best-practices for data protection and cyber security.
9. Monitor and Improve Procedures
Continuously monitor the effectiveness of the organisation’s ransomware defence strategy and implement improvements based on lessons learned, changing threat landscape, and evolving organisational needs, ensuring ongoing resilience against ransomware attacks.
7. Establish a Ransomware Playbook
Develop a ransomware incident response playbook that outlines roles, responsibilities, and processes to be followed in case of an attack, ensuring it is easily accessible and well-understood by all stakeholders.
8. Review Backup and Recovery Processes
Evaluate and improve the organisation’s backup and recovery processes to ensure the timely and effective restoration of critical systems and data following a ransomware attack, minimising the potential impact and downtime.
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Experienced Consultant Team
Our Penetration Testing Team are CREST Accredited & Includes CHECK Team Leaders
Experienced & Accredited Testing Team For All Our Services
Penetration testing is a key component of any effective cybersecurity strategy, and it requires well-trained professionals to execute. Our consultant team needs are highly trained in order to test your business for vulnerabilities and identify potential threats before they cause harm. Our team have a deep understanding of the systems and protocols involved in protecting against hackers, malware, and data breaches.
- CHECK Team Leaders
- CREST Accredited consultant teams
- Experts in all areas of cybersecurity
See What Our Clients Have to Say About our Professional Services
“Pentest People stand out in the field of penetration testing due to the skillset of people they have working there. We undertook a complex bespoke pentest with them which required a lot of pre-work in order to make sure it was scoped correctly and they took the time to come onsite to make sure all was correct prior to commencing. From my experience with them, they are very intelligent people with a deep understanding of the security landscape and we will continue to use them for future testing requirements”.
"Pentest People has been a trusted partner in our Information Security audits, helping us achieve ISO27001:2013 and Cyber Essentials certifications. Their expertise, professionalism, and
customer-focused solutions have greatly improved our ICT infrastructure.
I highly recommend Pentest People to any potential client."
“Pentest People were efficient, knowledgeable and very supportive of our organisation making the jump from Cyber Essentials to accreditation to the ‘Plus’ upgrade. They were great to communicate with, delivered as promised and we will certainly use again when re-certification comes round."
“The SecureGateway allowed Pentest People to perform a quality penetration test while the tester worked remotely. The results and data collected by the consultant were at the level we would expect from a standard test, showing no real difference other than allowing us to proceed as normal”
“Pentest People have provided us with a very streamlined testing service, that can be easily reviewed using their SecurePortal. I’m pleased with the quality of the testing report and it has enabled us to feel more confident in our network security”.
“We used Pentest People to assist us with our security testing. They truly understand this area extremely well and gave us great reassurance on areas that we needed to improve.
Pentest People are truly experts in the security field and we would highly recommend them. They have great depth of knowledge and breadth of experience”
"Pentest People perform Web Application and Infrastructure Penetration Testing for Pharmacy2U. They are always professional to engage with, provide an excellent level of service and the addition of the SecurePortal makes receiving and interrogating the results of the service very easy indeed.We look forward to working with them in the future and trust the work they deliver."
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