Ransomware Readiness Assessment
Evaluate your organization's ability to prevent, detect, and recover from sophisticated ransomware attacks. Our assessment identifies critical gaps in ransomware defense and provides a clear roadmap for enhancing resilience.
In scope
- Email security controls
- Endpoint protection assessment
- Network segmentation review
- Backup and recovery systems
- Active Directory security
- User awareness evaluation
- Privileged access management
You receive
- Ransomware defense report
- Technical control recommendations
- Recovery capability assessment
- Remediation roadmap
- Tabletop scenario results
- Incident response playbook updates
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential Ransomware Defense
$30K
Control review for up to 500 employees and 1 location with one AD forest: email security, endpoint protection, segmentation, backups, AD and privileged access, by configuration review and interviews. Report and remediation roadmap.
- employees
- 500
- Sites
- 1
- Review of the 7 ransomware control areas
- Backup and recovery capability review on paper
- Active Directory security configuration review
- Ransomware defense report
- Remediation roadmap
- — Tabletop exercise
- — Hands-on restore testing
- — Attack simulation
- — IR playbook updates
Enhanced Ransomware Protection Program
$55K
Up to 2,500 employees and up to 3 locations. Adds 1 ransomware tabletop scenario for up to 20 participants, observed restore tests of up to 3 critical systems, a user awareness evaluation, and updates to the existing IR playbook.
- employees
- 2500
- Sites
- 3
- Objectives
- 1
- participants
- 20
- Everything in the basic tier
- 1 ransomware tabletop scenario
- Observed restore tests of up to 3 critical systems
- User awareness evaluation
- Updates to the existing IR playbook
- — Ransomware attack simulation in the environment
- — A new custom playbook written from scratch
- — Remediation implementation
Complete Anti-Ransomware Solution
$85K
No fixed employee cap - scoped at kickoff; up to 10 locations. Adds ransomware attack simulation with non-destructive techniques, restore validation of up to 8 critical systems, 2 tabletop scenarios for up to 40 participants, and a custom playbook.
- Sites
- 10
- Objectives
- 2
- participants
- 40
- Everything in the enhanced tier
- Non-destructive ransomware attack simulation
- Restore validation of up to 8 critical systems
- 2 tabletop scenarios (technical and executive)
- Custom ransomware response playbook
- — Remediation implementation
- — Incident response retainer
- — Ransom negotiation services
Members: engagement coupons from the CISO Marketplace coupon book apply to services. There is no blanket discount.
What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a incident response readiness engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Current-state review
Plans, playbooks, contacts, logging and insurance requirements reviewed.
You see · Your IR plan and insurance policy.
02Scenario design
Scenarios chosen for your threat profile: ransomware, BEC, insider, cloud compromise.
You see · Participant list and scenario sign-off.
03Exercise / readiness work
Tabletop facilitation or readiness build-out, depending on the service.
You see · Your team's time in the room.
04After-action report
Gaps found, decisions that stalled, and an improvement plan with owners.
You see · A report your board and insurer can read.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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