Are You Prepared for a Ransomware Attack?
End-to-end ransomware readiness assessment covering backup integrity, lateral movement paths, privilege escalation vectors, incident response capability, and recovery time validation.
Why Ransomware Readiness Matters Now
The threat landscape is evolving rapidly. These are the risks your organization faces without proper ransomware readiness assessment.
Double Extortion Ransomware
A critical attack vector that organizations must address proactively. Our assessment identifies and validates exposure to this specific threat.
Supply Chain Ransomware
A critical attack vector that organizations must address proactively. Our assessment identifies and validates exposure to this specific threat.
Backup Encryption Attacks
A critical attack vector that organizations must address proactively. Our assessment identifies and validates exposure to this specific threat.
Living Off the Land Techniques
A critical attack vector that organizations must address proactively. Our assessment identifies and validates exposure to this specific threat.
What We Assess
Comprehensive coverage across all critical areas of ransomware readiness assessment.
Deep-Dive Coverage - Every Nuance Addressed
Ransomware Readiness isn't one-size-fits-all. Different contexts demand different assessment approaches. We go beyond generic checklists to address the specific attack surfaces and risks of each domain.
Active Directory & Identity Blast-Radius Reduction
Ransomware crews move fast through identity weaknesses. This domain reduces the chance that one compromised account becomes enterprise-wide encryption.
- ▸ Tier 0 and equivalent identity asset mapping for domain controllers, PKI, admin workstations, virtualization consoles, and privileged groups
- ▸ Hardening against Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, unconstrained delegation, and service principal misuse across hybrid identity
- ▸ LAPS, PAM, JIT, and privileged group hygiene to eliminate standing admin paths frequently abused during ransomware operations
- ▸ Retirement of NTLM, SMBv1, unsigned LDAP, and other legacy protocols that expand lateral movement options
- ▸ Detection and approval controls for sudden privileged group changes, mass GPO edits, and suspicious password reset activity
Backup Integrity, Immutability & Restore Confidence
Backups that have never been restored are only assumptions. This domain validates whether recovery data, credentials, and workflows survive adversarial conditions.
- ▸ Object-lock, WORM, and immutable snapshot validation across backup platforms, storage tiers, and cloud recovery vaults
- ▸ Credential segregation for backup consoles, service accounts, encryption keys, and privileged recovery operators
- ▸ Restore testing for Active Directory, VMware, Microsoft 365, SQL, file services, and cloud workloads under realistic time pressure
- ▸ Verification of checksum integrity, application consistency, and post-restore malware re-entry risk before systems are returned to service
- ▸ Measured RPO and RTO performance against business expectations when primary environments are encrypted or unavailable
Lateral Movement Containment Architecture
Containment fails when the environment was never designed to stop east-west spread. This domain validates the controls that slow or stop operator-driven propagation.
- ▸ Segmentation review for SMB, RDP, WinRM, PsExec, WMI, and management protocols commonly used for ransomware deployment
- ▸ EDR host isolation, NAC quarantine, and firewall micro-segmentation workflows tested against critical server and VDI populations
- ▸ Privileged access path reduction so admin protocols only originate from approved jump hosts and secure workstations
- ▸ Golden image, reimage-at-scale, and rapid reprovisioning readiness for mass endpoint replacement during destructive events
- ▸ Detections for remote service creation, scheduled task abuse, software distribution misuse, and beacon-to-ransomware tradecraft transition
Early Warning Analytics & Extortion Response Engineering
The best ransomware readiness programs detect operators before encryption begins and respond coherently once extortion starts. This domain bridges monitoring with crisis execution.
- ▸ Analytics for mass file rename patterns, ransom note creation, shadow copy deletion, backup service stoppage, and safe-mode reboot attempts
- ▸ Exfiltration monitoring for Rclone, MEGA, SFTP, cloud object storage, and unusual archive staging prior to encryption
- ▸ Emergency kill-switch playbooks using GPO, firewall ACLs, EDR isolate, and privileged account disablement to slow spread quickly
- ▸ Extortion communication handling for portal access, sample validation, negotiation support, and evidence capture without contaminating systems
- ▸ Malware triage and decryption intelligence workflows tied to family identification, leaked builders, and public decryptor availability
Proven Ransomware Readiness Methodology
A systematic, repeatable methodology refined over 5500+ security assessments across 25+ countries.
Discovery & Scoping
Understand your environment, define scope, identify critical assets and testing boundaries.
Threat Intelligence
Gather intelligence on known threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors specific to your domain.
Assessment Execution
Conduct thorough testing combining automated tools with expert manual analysis.
Analysis & Correlation
Correlate findings, assess business impact, eliminate false positives, and prioritize risks.
Reporting & Remediation
Deliver detailed reports with executive summary, technical findings, and actionable remediation guidance.
Verification & Support
Re-test after remediation, verify fixes, and provide ongoing advisory support.
Why Choose Us for Ransomware Readiness Assessment
India's Only CREST-Approved
International gold standard in security testing - ensuring international quality standards.
Government Empanelled
Government of India authorized security auditor (2025-2027) for regulated entities.
Real-Time Project Portal
Track assessment progress, view findings, and collaborate with our team through our proprietary LURA platform. Security Simplified.
Standards & Frameworks We Align With
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Frequently Asked Questions
Clear answers to help you make informed security decisions for your organization.
What does a ransomware readiness assessment cover?
We assess your entire defense chain against ransomware including backup integrity, network segmentation, endpoint protection, email security, Active Directory hardening, privilege access management, and incident response capability.
Do you actually simulate a ransomware attack?
We simulate the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by ransomware groups without deploying actual ransomware. This includes lateral movement, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration simulation.
How do you test backup integrity?
We verify backup completeness, test actual recovery procedures, validate RTO/RPO targets, check for immutable backup configurations, and ensure backups are protected from ransomware encryption.
What is your approach to Active Directory assessment?
We use tools like BloodHound to map AD attack paths, identify excessive privileges, Kerberoastable accounts, delegation misconfigurations, and paths to domain admin compromise.
How long does the assessment take?
A comprehensive ransomware readiness assessment typically takes 2-3 weeks, including testing, analysis, and reporting with actionable remediation guidance.
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