Sound Familiar?
Why Ransomware Hits So Hard
It starts on a Sunday night. By Monday morning file shares are encrypted, the backup server is too, and there’s a ransom note on every screen. Real ransomware protection assumes an attacker will get in somewhere and makes sure they can’t take your recovery with them.
Why Now
When Ransomware Becomes Your Problem
A supplier or peer is hit Someone you work with goes offline for weeks. Your leadership team asks how long you’d be down if it happened here.
Your insurer asks about backups The renewal form asks whether backups are immutable and offline. You’re not sure how to answer either question.
A test restore takes far too long Someone tries recovering a key system and it takes days rather than hours. Now everyone is worried.
What Changes
What’s Different Afterwards
Where to Start
How We’d Strengthen Your Ransomware Protection
Start with the free review
We look at your backups, recovery arrangements, entry points and response plans with ransomware specifically in mind.
What you’ll have: A clear picture of your ransomware exposure
Protect the backups first
We help isolate and lock at least one backup copy so attackers can’t destroy your way back.
What you’ll have: A recovery path that survives an attack
Rehearse the worst day
We test a full recovery and walk your leaders through a ransomware scenario, so decisions are made in advance.
What you’ll have: A tested recovery and a response plan people know
Want the full method? See Data Protection, Backup and Cyber Recovery.
Your First Step
Start with a Free Ransomware Readiness Review
We’ll look at your backups, recovery, entry points and response plans through the eyes of a ransomware attacker. You get a clear list of what to fix first, and it’s yours to keep.
Book a Ransomware Readiness Review
- We walk you through the findings on a call.
- Then it’s your decision, with no obligation to go further.
Scope
- Backups and recovery for critical systems
- Common entry points and admin access
You Provide
- Access to backup configuration and reports
- A list of critical systems
- Your current incident response plan
You Receive
- Backup weaknesses ranked by risk
- Entry points to close first
- A first-hour response plan outline
Cost and Timing
- Free, with a fixed scope
- Timing depends on your estate, so talk to us
Try This First
Quick Ransomware Protection Checks
These checks focus on whether you could recover, rather than only on whether you’d be attacked.
Find out if backups are reachable from the network
Ask whether an administrator on a normal server could delete or encrypt your backups. If yes, they’re at risk.
Check whether any backup copy is immutable
Most modern backup platforms offer locked or immutable copies. Confirm whether it’s switched on for critical systems.
Ask when a full system recovery was last tested
Not a single file, a whole system. If nobody can remember, that’s the first gap.
Confirm MFA on remote access and email
Stolen passwords on these services are among the most common ways ransomware gets in.
Write down who makes the first decisions
Name the person who decides to isolate systems, call the insurer and notify regulators. Then share it.
Why Signisys
Why Take Our Advice on This
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens after the review?
We walk you through what we found on a call. You can act on it with your own team, or ask us to help with the bigger changes. Either way, it’s your decision and there’s no obligation.
Can we prevent ransomware completely?
No organization can rule it out entirely, which is why ransomware protection pairs prevention with recovery you can trust. The aim is to make an attack much harder and to make sure you can get back without paying.
What does an immutable backup actually mean?
It’s a backup copy that can’t be changed or deleted for a set period, even by an administrator. If attackers get admin rights, they still can’t destroy that copy, which keeps your recovery option intact.
Should we ever pay a ransom?
That’s a decision for your leadership, lawyers and insurer, and it’s best discussed before an attack, not during one. Paying doesn’t guarantee recovery, which is why tested backups matter so much.
How is this different from general backup reliability?
Backup reliability is about jobs running and data restoring. Ransomware readiness adds isolation from attackers, protection of admin accounts and a plan for the response. Both matter, and the review covers where they overlap.
Who should be involved in a ransomware tabletop exercise?
IT and security leads, plus the people who’d make business decisions: leadership, legal, communications and often finance. It’s a discussion, not a technical test, and usually takes a few hours.
Get Ransomware Ready
A free review shows whether your backups and plans would survive a ransomware attack, and what to fix first.
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