WorkNest Secure
Ransomware Readiness Assessment
Strengthen your organisation’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to ransomware attacks.
Our Ransomware Readiness Assessment delivers a targeted, comprehensive review to determine whether your organisation can identify, contain, and respond effectively when ransomware strikes.
Our Ransomware Readiness Assessment delivers a targeted, comprehensive review to determine whether your organisation can identify, contain, and respond effectively when ransomware strikes.
Our Ransomware Readiness Assessment delivers a targeted, comprehensive review to determine whether your organisation can identify, contain, and respond effectively when ransomware strikes.
Using the CIS framework, we combine asset identification, vulnerability scanning, policy and process review, training, and continuous improvement to build stronger ransomware resilience.
Real‑world tabletop exercises and tailored playbooks prepare your team for live scenarios, while advanced scanning tools surface weaknesses before attackers can exploit them.
Using the CIS framework, we combine asset identification, vulnerability scanning, policy and process review, training, and continuous improvement to build stronger ransomware resilience.
Real‑world tabletop exercises and tailored playbooks prepare your team for live scenarios, while advanced scanning tools surface weaknesses before attackers can exploit them.
What is ransomware?
What is ransomware?
What is ransomware?
Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts and locks your digital files, making them inaccessible until you pay a ransom, potentially causing significant financial damage, disruption, and downtime to your operations.
Attacks have grown increasingly common in recent years, affecting organisations of all sizes and industries.
Why WorkNest for a Ransomware Readiness Assessment?
Achieve practical, measurable improvements across every layer of your defences:
Expose hidden vulnerabilities
Through vulnerability scanning, configuration reviews, policy checks, and interviews, we uncover risks that often go unnoticed.
Actionable recommendations
Receive practical, prioritised improvements aligned to your systems, workflows, and current maturity level.
Real-world scenarios
We work through realistic scenarios so your teams can practise detecting, containing, and responding collaboratively.
Why conduct a Ransomware Readiness Assessment?
Why conduct a Ransomware Readiness Assessment?
Why conduct a Ransomware Readiness Assessment?
Ransomware resilience is a critical component of a security strategy.
Pinpoint gaps in your ransomware-specific controls and processes, reducing the likelihood of successful attacks.
Assess all aspects of your organisation against a structured ransomware resilience framework.
Develop a ransomware-specific incident response plan to help your team act decisively under pressure.
Include training to help staff recognise ransomware tactics and avoid common pitfalls.
Help prevent ransomware-induced downtime, causing financial losses and reputational damage.
Ransomware resilience is a critical component of a security strategy.
Pinpoint gaps in your ransomware-specific controls and processes, reducing the likelihood of successful attacks.
Assess all aspects of your organisation against a structured ransomware resilience framework.
Develop a ransomware-specific incident response plan to help your team act decisively under pressure.
Include training to help staff recognise ransomware tactics and avoid common pitfalls.
Help prevent ransomware-induced downtime, causing financial losses and reputational damage.
Our process
Our assessment follows a thorough 9-step process to improve your ransomware defences.
Our experts determine and prioritise your critical data and systems based on their importance to operational continuity and their potential impact in the event of a ransomware attack.
We use the CMA questionnaire to assess your security posture, identify gaps, and determine areas for improvement.
Our team assesses low-hanging issues across a provided scope on an internal Windows-based network using the Symbiote tool to produce multiple CSV and TXT files, indicating misconfigured settings and weaknesses across the assessed hosts.
We assess and help update your existing policies and procedures for data protection, backup and recovery, incident response, and user awareness training to ensure comprehensive protection.
Our experts evaluate your organisation's readiness to respond to an attack by involving stakeholders from IT, management, and other relevant departments in tabletop exercises to identify gaps and areas for improvement.
We improve your overall ransomware defence with regular user awareness training for employees, focusing on recognising and reporting potential ransomware threats, and following best practices for data protection and cyber security.
Our experts develop a ransomware incident response playbook outlining roles, responsibilities, and processes to follow in the event of an attack, ensuring it is easily accessible and well-understood by all stakeholders.
We evaluate and improve your backup and recovery processes to ensure the timely and effective restoration of critical systems and data following a ransomware attack, minimising the potential impact and downtime.
Our team will continue to monitor the effectiveness of your ransomware defence strategy and implement improvements based on learnings, the threat landscape, and your evolving organisational needs.
Book your Readiness Assessment and stay one step ahead of attackers.
FAQs
The CIS framework (Center for Internet Security Controls) is a set of best practices designed to help organisations improve their cyber security posture by reducing vulnerabilities and fortifying cyber defences.
It provides guidelines for securing systems, networks, and data through measures such as asset management, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring.
The CIS framework (Center for Internet Security Controls) is a set of best practices designed to help organisations improve their cyber security posture by reducing vulnerabilities and fortifying cyber defences.
It provides guidelines for securing systems, networks, and data through measures such as asset management, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring.
What our clients say
We’ve always been very impressed with the cyber security services WorkNest provide us. Their professional approach, knowledge and flexibility have ensured they have become a key trusted partner in our supply chain.
Paymentsense
Founder
WorkNest Secure delivered a highly professional and thorough incident response service. Their team’s technical knowledge, attention to detail, and clear communication throughout the process made a complex area easy to navigate. The quality of the analysis and final reporting gave us real assurance and added value to our internal security efforts, minimising the impact to the business.
Shoezone
Head of IT
We offer a broader suite of Incident Response services to provide rapid, expert-led containment and recovery from cyber threats.
Discover your organisation’s true readiness to respond to security incidents before they occur.
Rehearse real-world cyber incidents in a safe, controlled environment.
Get immediate access to cyber defence experts when a security incident occurs.
Equip your IT and security teams with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to take appropriate action before specialist incident responders arrive.
