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Ransomware Readiness Assessment

Identify, protect, detect, respond & recover from a ransomware attack

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Kickstart Your Ransomware Readiness Audit Today

A ransomware readiness assessment evaluates your organisation’s resilience against active extortion attacks. Risk Crew conducts objective assessments to identify exploitable entry points, verify backup integrity, and ensure your incident response team can contain threats rapidly. 

What Is a Ransomware Readiness Assessment?

A ransomware readiness assessment measures your technical controls, backup strategies, and incident response procedures against real-world ransomware tactics. It uncovers weaknesses across network perimeter defences, Active Directory, and endpoint security before threat actors exploit them. 

Modern ransomware attacks combine automated exploitation with human-operated lateral movement. Risk Crew’s assessment provides complete visibility into your exposure and delivers a clear roadmap to block initial access and guarantee recovery. 

Initial Access PreventionLateral Movement DefenceBackup & Recovery AuditContainment & Response

Core Pillars of Risk Crew’s Ransomware Assessment

Our comprehensive evaluation measures your security posture against the primary stages of a ransomware attack chain:

1. Initial Access Prevention
We review perimeter security, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exposure, email filtering controls, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement to ensure common entry points are locked down.

2. Lateral Movement & Privilege Escalation Defences
Threat actors rely on misconfigurations to navigate networks. We audit Active Directory permissions, service accounts, network segmentation, and local admin rights to prevent rapid propagation.

3. Backup Integrity & Recovery Verification
Backups are the primary target for ransomware operators. We evaluate backup isolation, immutability, air-gapping, and restore speed to ensure you can recover data without paying a ransom.

4. Detection, Containment & Response Readiness
We assess your Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions, logging configurations, and incident playbooks to ensure rapid detection and isolation of infected hosts.

Risk Crew Assessment Deliverables
Deliverable Description Primary Target Audience
Ransomware Exposure Scorecard Benchmarks current defences against industry frameworks (NIST / CIS). CISO & Risk Committee
Prioritised Remediation Roadmap Technical checklist detailing critical vulnerabilities and fix guidance. IT & Security Operations
Backup Resilience Report Assessment of backup security, isolation, and recovery viability. Infrastructure & Cloud Teams
Executive Summary & Briefing High-level presentation of risk findings for board reporting. Executive Board & C-Suite

Why Choose Risk Crew for Your Ransomware Audit?

We stand behind our work. If our service does not meet agreed expectations, you do not pay. 

Objective recommendations focused strictly on effective risk reduction, not selling software.

Certified engineers holding CISSP, CISM, CISA, and CREST credentials with over 30 years of experience. 

Includes 30 days of follow-up support to assist your team in implementing recommended fixes.

Why Choose Risk Crew

Best Practice Risk Crew follows best practices including ISO 27001, PCI, Data Protection Act 2018 and the GDPR
Accredited & Certified Consultants hold CISSP, CISA, CISM and CRISC certifications. Also ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certified
Experienced Practitioners Risk Crew has over 30 years of practical knowledge

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FAQs

A penetration test focuses on finding specific technical vulnerabilities to gain unauthorised access. A ransomware readiness assessment evaluates your overall organisational resilience, specifically auditing backup immutability, Active Directory architecture, detection speed, and recovery capabilities during a ransomware scenario. 

Threat actors target backups to eliminate an organisation’s ability to restore data independently, thereby increasing leverage to demand ransom payments. Securing immutable and air-gapped backups ensures rapid data restoration without paying extortion demands. 

The three most common entry vectors for ransomware are phishing emails containing malicious attachments or links, unpatched perimeter vulnerabilities, and exposed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials lacking multi-factor authentication (MFA). 

A standard Ransomware Readiness Assessment typically takes 1 to 2 weeks to complete, depending on organisational size and infrastructure complexity. Deliverables include a comprehensive technical report, executive summary, and a prioritised remediation roadmap. 

Good question. Law enforcement agencies recommend that you do not. While it is not generally illegal to do so, there is absolutely no guarantee that the attacker will decrypt your data upon receiving payment. Ethics notwithstanding, the answer is ultimately a business decision and may depend on a cost-benefit analysis.