Cyber | Ransomware Resilience Assessment

CYBER | Ransomware Resilience Assessment

RESILIENCE

Regardless of how big your business is, its structure, or which industry you’re in, ransomware is a real threat and the impact for unprepared organisations can be colossal.

For some, it can even be terminal – are you ready?

Accurately measure your specific risk to ransomware
Develop training and education needs, planned in line with highest risk and Identify policy improvement opportunities
Identify corrective action to strengthen response capability and reduce impact

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Ransomware attacks are on the rise

After the USA, the UK is the second most targeted country.The cost of the attacks is also increasing; The average cost of remediating a ransomware attack has more than doubled in the last 12 months.

“The average ransom in 2024 is $2.73 million, almost an increase of $1 million from 2023.”

– Sophos

Top 3 Benefits of a Ransomware Resilience Assessment?

Identifies security weaknesses & Provides prioritised corrective actions

Our Ransomware Resilience Assessment helps your organisation protect and respond to ransomware
attacks by examining key security aspects.

Defines training, education & policy improvement plans.

We’ll deliver a security improvement
plan including identified weaknesses, recommendations and corrective actions. it will also include a high level roadmap of
prioritised recommendations to help you prepare, secure, detect and respond to ransomware events.

Highlights where suppliers’ security posture is misaligned to yours.

Ransomware can travel up and down the supply chain. This service identifies any risk of a suppliers’ cyber security negligence impacting your business.

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Ransomware Resilience Assessment Features:

Identify security weaknesses
Provide prioritised corrective actions to improve effectiveness
Provide a ransomware readiness indication for your business
Allow training and education needs to be planned in line with highest risk
Identify policy improvement
Support identity and access management planning
Highlight where suppliers’ security posture is miss-aligned to yours.
Provide clarity on configurations to meet best practice
Identify corrective action to strengthen response capability and reduce impact

“It’s refreshing to talk to a business who take the time to understand the needs of our organisation. They just seem to ask the right questions to deliver the solutions without fuss. The suggested improvements they provided will be instrumental in helping us enhance our cybersecurity practice – highly recommended.“

Jamie Graham – Head of Cyber SecurityDigital Health & Care Wales

“What Net Consulting provides us with is a baseline for where we are now. We can achieve our longer-term objectives with this robust foundation of information. It’s key to success, and that’s why we collaborate with companies like Net Consulting to build trust and deliver our outputs.”

Clint Chambers – Department HeadMinistry of Defence

“Unless you’re prepared to run a 24/7 security operation in-house, headed up by a team of seriously skilled people, you’re never going to match what BlueArmour ATD offers.”

Capital Law LLP

“We needed to understand whether our applications could operate from a shared services datacentre. Net Consulting were able to give us the answers”

Head of ITSheffield Hallam University

“NCL were responsive and agile, advising on emerging issues, communicating complex subject matters to a wide user audience, all while fulfilling the brief of technical advisor and critical friend. They effectively steered us through to our strategic milestones.”

Andrew Lycett – Director of FinanceSocial Care Wales

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A long track record, being comfortable in the uncomfortable.

We’ve built a solid reputation for delivering benefit driven capabilities, across public and private sectors.

Our hands on experience, was earned in the most challenging IT environments, globally.

Best of breed, as standard.

We continually invest, and test, best of breed technologies to underpin our services portfolio.

We then hire the best to deliver them to you.

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Our award-winning services are delivered by a group of people who share our way of thinking.

We will never compromise on our values, and we’re commitment to honesty and transparency in every engagement.

Build a solid foundation to protect against ransomware

In our experience, ransomware defence is founded on clear direction and support from senior management, coupled with robust and comprehensive security practices and supported by effective incident detection and response capabilities.

We can support the development of your cyber security defences through hardening systems, attack surface identification and reduction, protection of sensitive data, and responding to and recovering from an attack. 

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FAQ

How often should a ransomware resilience assessment be conducted?

Typically, It’s recommended to conduct a Ransomware Resilience Assessment on a regular basis, at least annually, or whenever there are significant changes to your IT infrastructure, systems, or operations.

Who from my team should be involved in the Ransomware Resilience Assessment process?

Ideally, this process would involve key stakeholders from various departments, including IT, cyber security, risk management, legal, and executive leadership. This is to ensure a comprehensive evaluation and effective implementation of mitigation strategies.

What are the common vulnerabilities and weaknesses that the Ransomware Resilience Assessment is likely to find?

The Assessments often flag up outdated software and systems, lack of patch management, insufficient employee training and awareness, inadequate data backup and recovery procedures, weak or misconfigured security controls, and gaps in incident response plans.

How can I improve our ransomware resilience based on your assessment findings?

Well, clearly we’d advise implementing any recommendations and remediation measures identified during the assessment ‘quick wins’ often include updating software and systems, strengthening security controls, enhancing employee training and awareness programs, improving data backup and recovery processes, and regularly testing incident response plans.