No single tool eliminates ransomware risk.
Any provider telling you otherwise is selling something. Effective resilience combines prevention, detection and containment, and a recovery you have actually tested — because eventually something gets through.
Prevention, then containment, then recovery
Each layer assumes the one before it will sometimes fail. That assumption is the entire design.
Prevention
Reduce how often an attempt succeeds at all.
- Multi-factor authentication
- Email security and filtering
- Endpoint protection
- Patching on a real schedule
- Least privilege and admin separation
- Security awareness training
Detection & containment
Shorten the time between compromise and response, and limit how far it spreads.
- Managed detection with alerts a human reviews
- Endpoint detection and response
- Network monitoring
- Segmentation to limit blast radius
- A written incident response plan
Recovery
Make the worst case survivable rather than fatal.
- Protected and off-site backup
- Immutable or isolated copies where appropriate
- Restore testing on a schedule
- Disaster recovery planning
- Recovery exercises with the team
The difference between an incident and a closure
Two organizations get hit by the same attack. One restores from an isolated backup over a long weekend and reopens Monday. The other discovers its backup server was reachable with the same credentials the attacker already had, and spends weeks deciding whether to pay.
The difference was not the security product either of them bought. It was whether anyone had tested a restore, and whether the backup could be reached from the production network. Those are design decisions made long before the incident.
What we do not claim
We do not claim to prevent ransomware. Nobody can. What we can do is reduce how often an attempt succeeds, shorten how long an intruder goes unnoticed, limit how far they get, and make sure that when the worst happens the organization can come back without negotiating with anyone.
Would your organization recover?
We will review your prevention, detection and recovery layers and tell you where the chain actually breaks.