Specialised Service Launched | Cyritex "Ransomware Defence Assessment Service" Brand New Release!

In recent years, the number of ransomware attack incidents has remained high and continues to rise. A large number of enterprises in key global industries such as healthcare, education, finance, and technology have suffered attacks, leading to serious consequences such as business paralysis and suspension of production and operations. Ransomware has also become a common cybersecurity puzzle faced globally in the era of the digital economy.

Enterprises may choose to deploy a variety of security products to cope with potential ransomware attacks, but this does not mean that they truly understand the defensive effectiveness of these security tools against real attacks.

In 2017, the WannaCry ransomware attack broke out on a large scale globally, affecting at least 150 countries and 300,000 users, causing a total loss of over US$8 billion.

The main types of ransomware include file encryption, data theft, and disk encryption. Attackers spread ransomware through phishing emails, malicious website scripts, etc., or launch attacks by exploiting security vulnerabilities or remote desktop intrusion, implanting ransomware and carrying out extortion activities.

Many enterprises have already paid sufficient attention to ransomware and hope to improve their defensive capabilities against ransomware attacks. In response to the concerns of enterprises, SecurityValidation has launched a brand-new "Ransomware Defense Assessment" specialized service to help enterprises verify whether their defensive capabilities are sufficient to cope by simulating real ransomware attack activities.

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SecurityValidation provides you with——

Professional ransomware defense assessment services, along with a complete assessment report for improvement reference.

The assessment report will clarify the assessment scope of this assessment service, and conduct a technical assessment of the enterprise's ransomware defense capability within this scope. The assessment results will be presented in the report, identifying specific risks for the enterprise and providing systematic causes and resolution suggestions.

Sample Report

▌SecurityValidation Simulated Attack Library

SecurityValidation can simulate over 600 types of ransomware attack techniques, covering different attack stages of the complete ransomware attack kill chain.

Example of Simulated Attack Library

▌SecurityValidation Recommendations

Ideally, enterprises should build proactive security capabilities, use new technologies to predict potential security risks in advance, and strive to capture ransomware attacks in their early stages. Early detection of intrusions enables organizations to accelerate response times, reduce the impact to a controllable level, and quickly resume business operations.

SecurityValidation can quickly and at scale simulate intrusions prior to ransomware deployment, helping to test whether your defense system can generate the correct response to these attack methods.

Prepare——

Prepare various defenses against ransomware and multi-extortion activities. The SecurityValidation platform and services help you tailor validation scenarios in real environments against the different ransomware attack stages and different attack methods mentioned earlier, to comprehensively assess your current defense system's capability to defend against ransomware.

Through the platform's automated or manual real simulation of attacks, you will obtain real data on security product detection and blocking situations, thereby improving the visibility and data-driven nature of your ransomware prevention strategies, and boosting confidence.

Prevent——

SecurityValidation helps your defense system identify activities prior to ransomware deployment and flexibly implement adaptive defense strategies to avoid major ransomware and multi-extortion incidents.

SecurityValidation provides you with one-time services or continuous (monthly/quarterly) services to help you complete assessments with one click, enabling your security team and defense system to quickly identify current and past ransomware and its techniques, and possess the capability and experience to detect, block, and respond before attackers cause damage to the organization. Gain an early information advantage through automated modules that identify key indicators of compromise (IOCs). Managed detection and response services provide expertise (such as integrated attacker research) to detect malicious activities faster and effectively prioritize defense efforts.

Respond——

If defensive weaknesses are discovered through the SecurityValidation platform and services, our front-line team will provide you with recommendations based on the assessed data so that you can take swift and decisive actions to reinforce, ultimately improving weaknesses and reducing the impact of facing ransomware and multi-extortion attacks in the future.

At the same time, you can also optimize the response process through the real ransomware attack simulations provided by SecurityValidation, and practice the response capability and experience of your security response team (such as emergency handling, business recovery, trace analysis, etc.), so as to calmly handle real incidents in the future.

| References:

[1] Ransomware Protection Manual [EB/OL]. China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, 2021

[2] White Paper on Ransomware Attack Characteristics and Trends [EB/OL]. Tencent Research Institute, 2021

[3] The Ransomware Threat Landscape: What to Expect in 2022 [EB/OL]. Broadcom Software, 2022

[4] 2021 Ransomware Epidemic Trend Report [EB/OL]. 360 Advanced Threat Research and Analysis Center, 2022