Ransomware Protection & Recovery Assessment
If ransomware hit tonight, how would tomorrow go?
A focused assessment of how well your organization would prevent, detect, contain, and recover from a ransomware event — tested against how these attacks actually unfold, not how vendor dashboards say they should. You get a survivability picture and a prioritized plan to improve it.
Why it matters
The question isn't whether your defenses are good. It's whether your recovery is real.
Modern ransomware crews don't just encrypt files — they hunt down and destroy backups first, exfiltrate data for double extortion, and move laterally for days before pulling the trigger. Defenses built for yesterday's smash-and-grab attacks miss all of that.
This assessment walks your environment the way an attacker would: where they'd get in, how far they could travel, what they could take, whether your backups would survive them — and how many days of downtime stand between an incident and recovery.
The deliverable isn't fear. It's a clear-eyed survivability picture and a ranked list of the changes that most improve your odds — many of which cost configuration time, not capital.
Especially valuable if…
- Backups have never been tested against a deliberate-destruction scenario
- You can't say how long a full recovery would take — in days, not hopes
- Flat networks or shared admin credentials are still in play
- Your cyber insurer is asking ransomware-specific questions
- A peer firm or competitor was recently hit, and leadership is asking “could that be us?”
What we examine
The full kill chain — from first phish to final restore.
Entry Points
Email security, patching, exposed services, and remote access — the front doors ransomware actually uses.
Credential Hardening
MFA coverage, privileged account hygiene, and the credential paths that turn one compromised laptop into a domain-wide event.
Segmentation & Blast Radius
How far an intruder could spread from a single foothold — and what would stop them.
Backup Survivability
Immutability, offline copies, separation of backup credentials, and whether your backups would outlive a determined attacker.
Detection & Response
Whether the early signs — reconnaissance, lateral movement, mass encryption — would trigger an alarm anyone hears.
Recovery Reality
Restore testing, recovery sequencing, and a defensible answer to “how many days until we're operating again?”
What you receive
A survivability picture and the plan to improve it.
Readiness findings
Strengths and gaps across prevention, containment, backup survivability, and recovery — with evidence for each.
Prioritized hardening plan
The changes that most improve survivability, ranked by impact and effort — quick configuration wins separated from capital projects.
Recovery time validation
A realistic, tested estimate of recovery time and data loss — so leadership plans around facts.
Executive briefing
The ransomware conversation your leadership has been meaning to have, grounded in your environment instead of headlines.
Let's connect
Ransomware readiness is decided before the attack, not during it.
Find the gaps while they're still cheap to fix. Book a call to scope your assessment.