Ransomware Assessment

Measure how effectively your organisation can protect itself against ransomware attacks and take steps to improve your defences with Rootshell Security’s Ransomware Assessment.

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What is a Ransomware Assessment?

A ransomware assessment involves evaluating your organisation’s attack surface in line with the methods utilised by threat actors to deploy a ransomware attack. This could include social engineering assessments, penetration tests, vulnerability scans, and more. The aim of a ransomware assessment is to provide organisations with insight into how resilient they would be to a ransomware attack and what improvements need to be made to minimise risk.

Rootshell Security’s Ransomware Assessment

We use a blend of approaches to measure your ability to defend, detect, and respond to ransomware attacks. Your ransomware assessment is delivered in three parts, ensuring you receive a thorough and insightful test to guide your next steps.

1. Social Engineering and Perimeter Testing

Your employees’ inability to detect phishing attacks is one of the main reasons why ransomware is on the rise, so it’s essential that your personnel are suitably trained. We can perform email, text, and voice phishing assessments to test your personnel’s susceptibility to malicious correspondence, as well as assess your technical defences and perimeter mail gateways.

  • Stress test technical defences and perimeter gateways
  • Measure susceptibility of users to social engineering (phishing, SMiShing, and vishing)
  • Measure susceptibility of users to clicking on links and opening attachments

2. Operating System and Network Testing

This stage of the ransomware assessment focuses on your organisation’s technical defences. This includes well configured end-point detection and response, securely patched and configured system builds, securely configured security policies, and good general industry recognised best practice.

  • Audits and build reviews of nominated servers and workstations
  • Detonate controlled payloads and non-sanctioned executable files on the systems
  • Password policy reviews and general security best practice alignment
  • User password audits

3. Public Facing Infrastructure and Application Testing

Detecting and addressing weaknesses within your public facing infrastructure and applications is essential to preventing ransomware attacks. Our CREST-certified testers will perform penetration tests and vulnerability scans to test for issues and potential exploitation points. We recommend that public facing infrastructure and applications are assessed on a regular basis, as threat actors and new vulnerabilities are ever-evolving.

  • Unauthenticated public facing infrastructure assessments with false positive reduction and manual confirmation
  • Unauthenticated public facing application assessments with false positive reduction and manual confirmation
  • We can also conduct these assessments from an authenticated perspective

Manage and Improve Your Ransomware Resilience with The Rootshell Platform

The Rootshell Platform is a vendor-agnostic vulnerability management solution that puts you at the centre of your IT security ecosystem. Consolidate assessment results, accelerate remediation from start to finish, and gain real-time insight into your ever-changing threat landscape.

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Why Rootshell’s Ransomware Assessment?

We’re proud to be a trusted provider of cyber security testing for some of the UK’s largest organisations.

  • Holistic approach: Our expertise in the full suite of security assessments means we can test an exhaustive number of ransomware attack methods, providing you with the most in-depth ransomware assessment.
  • Subject matter experts: We provide industry-leading testing services to some of the largest businesses in the UK. Our extensive experience and understanding of how threat actors operate means we can deliver the most robust ransomware assessment possible.
  • Quality assured: Our CREST-certified testers deliver security assessments to the highest industry standards, such as Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) guidelines, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES).

Frequently Asked Questions About Ransomware Assessments

Ransomware is malicious-intended software (also known as ‘malware’), which is deployed in an effort to deny access to a computer system, files, or resources, until a payment of some kind is made. Ransomware can also be described as a type of cyber extortion.

There are various types of ransomware, which work in different ways. For example:

  • Lockers: lock the native operating system by denying access to the system
  • Encryptors: identify interesting files and encrypt them
  • Propagators: either of the above, which then look to propagate across a network, like a worm
  • ScareWare: attempts to scare you into downloading or carrying out actions useful to the attacker (essentially a trojan)

The main goal of any ransomware is to lock a user out of their devices, files, and data, usually for financial gain.

By identifying the common attack vectors and methods utilised by ransomware attackers, an organisation can take measures to minimise the chance of falling victim to a ransomware attack. This is the objective of a ransomware assessment.

We believe a good ransomware assessment should cover these three key areas:

1. Social engineering and perimeter testing: this involves testing how susceptible your personnel are to malicious correspondence, as well as your technical defences and perimeter mail gateways.

2. Operating system and network testing: this tests your technical defences, including your end-point detection and response, system builds, and security policies.

3. Public facing infrastructure and application testing: this could involve security testers performing penetration tests and vulnerability scans to test your infrastructure and applications for weaknesses and exploitation points.

Contact us today for your Ransomware Assessment