Cyber resilience
Incident Response and Ransomware Readiness Assessment
Verify that teams can make fast, coordinated and evidence-based decisions when ransomware or another serious incident disrupts normal operations.
The business problem
Why this assessment matters.
An incident plan may look complete until teams confront unavailable systems, uncertain authority, insurer requirements, regulatory deadlines and a backup that has never been restored under pressure.
Our readiness assessment tests the operational connections between security, IT, legal, privacy, communications, leadership and recovery teams. Technical evidence is paired with realistic decision exercises.
Audit coverage
What we assess.
Final scope reflects your environment, critical systems, risk profile and assurance objective.
Incident-response plans, roles and escalation
Ransomware isolation and privileged-access controls
Security monitoring and forensic readiness
Crisis communications and legal coordination
Cyber insurance and external responder procedures
Backup isolation, integrity and restoration testing
Business continuity and critical-service recovery
Lessons learned and corrective-action tracking
Assessment process
How the audit works.
Testing is evidence-led, risk-based and designed to protect business operations.
- Identify critical scenarios, services and decision makers
- Review plans, tooling, retainers and technical recovery evidence
- Interview response and business stakeholders
- Facilitate a scenario-based tabletop exercise
- Capture decisions, gaps and prioritized readiness actions
Engagement outputs
What your team receives.
Grounded in the evidence, testing and risk context collected during this engagement.
Incident-plan gap analysis
Ransomware control findings
Tabletop exercise after-action report
Recovery dependency map
Prioritized corrective-action plan
Standards and guidance
A recognizable basis for conclusions.
Applicable standards organize testing and reporting while the actual environment determines risk.
NIST SP 800-61
NIST CSF 2.0
CISA ransomware guidance
ISO 27035
MITRE ATT&CK
Frequently asked questions
Planning your incident response and ransomware assessment.
Does this include a tabletop exercise?
Yes. A tailored exercise tests decision paths, communications and technical assumptions using a realistic scenario.
Will you test backup restoration?
We review restoration evidence and can observe or help plan a controlled restore test within the agreed scope.
Do you provide emergency incident response?
This assessment prepares the program. Any active-incident support and availability must be arranged separately before an emergency.
Who should participate?
Security, IT, legal, privacy, communications, business continuity, executive leadership and critical service owners commonly participate.
Can the assessment cover regulatory notification?
We evaluate documented decision and coordination processes, while specific legal advice remains with qualified counsel.
Related assessments
Follow connected attack paths.
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