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Our certified cloud auditors review your cloud environment, policies, and procedures for readiness to handle a ransomware attack in the cloud. The audit follows the recommendations of the NIST Ransomware Profile of Risk Management.
We review your cloud environment, policies, procedures, and plans to deal with a ransomware attack. Each of the five NIST Cybersecurity Framework Functions are reviewed to ultimately answer questions such as:
Identify - Have cloud systems, cloud components, cloud services, cloud data, and cloud accounts been identified and inventoried? Which ones have been identified as critical? Has an inventory of all assets been created and maintained?
Protect - What safeguards and controls have been put in place to ensure cloud data remains protected and cloud services continue to function in the event of a ransomware attack? Have best practices, industry standards, and cloud vendor recommended ransomware protections been implemented? What personnel training activities are used, and how often are they reviewed and tested?
Detect - What measures have been implemented to detect a ransomware attack in the cloud environment? What cloud vendor features are used for network logging, monitoring, and alerting to detect a ransomware attack in the cloud? When and how are they tested?
Respond - What plans, procedures, tools, and configurations are used to respond to a ransomware attack in the cloud? When and how are they tested? Can they contain a ransomware attack? What communication plans are in place?
Recover - What activities are planned to recover from a ransomware attack in the cloud? What is the expected time to recover? Have cloud backups been implemented, protected, and tested?
Key areas of focus are:
Asset inventories
Account design, access management, and separation of duties
Network segmentation and isolation
Dev and prod environment separation
Implementation of Zero Trust principles
Backups protected and following the 3-2-1 Rule
Patching policies and procedures
Logging, monitoring, and alerting
Development of Incident Response and Recovery Plans
Personnel training for phishing attacks
Implementation of security controls
We provide you independent evidence of your readiness to handle a ransomware attack in the cloud, using three deliverables:
Detailed report of deficiencies and recommendations for corrections to share with your cloud engineers and policy managers
Summary report with charts and metrics to share with your management and business leaders
Letter of overall cloud ransomware readiness to share with your stakeholders, partners, customers, vendors, investors, or other third parties
More importantly, you get a "true view" of your cloud ransomware readiness from independent and certified cloud experts. You can use this to:
Verify the cloud security work of your cloud engineers
Verify the cloud security work of consultants and contractors
Provide evidence of cloud ransomware readiness to your organization's board or leadership
Perform due diligence of the cloud ransomware readiness of an organization as part of a merger or acquisition
Provide evidence of cloud ransomware readiness to an interested buyer or investor
Provide evidence of cloud ransomware readiness to stakeholders, partners, customers, vendors, or other third parties
Provide evidence of cloud ransomware readiness to cybersecurity insurance companies
Verify your cloud ransomware readiness after an attack or breach
Provide evidence of cloud ransomware readiness as part of a wider organizational audit
We are very transparent with the audit process and provide clear steps so you can include the process in your planning and predict its completion. The steps of the Ransomware Readiness Audit are:
Free initial consultation
Agreement on scope, criteria, and timeline
Kickoff meeting with request for information, interview scheduling, and cloud access
Interviews with Subject Matters Experts and policy owners
Review of cloud environment security posture and ransomware controls
Delivery of reports of findings and recommendations
Closing meeting with auditors to review findings and recommendations
When it comes to your cloud security and ransomware readiness, don't just rely on assumptions or take someone else's word for it. Verify it with an independent audit by certified cloud engineers.
We are the obvious choice for cloud audits for two main reasons:
Our expertise
Our prices
You are guaranteed that your auditor has at least the following credentials:
Compare the credentials of our auditors to others available to you and the choice is clear that we have the expertise you need.
Because of our focus on providing independent audits, our prices are lower than expensive consulting companies that want to add multiple services and open-ended consulting engagements that never end. We have fast turn-around times, short timelines, up front pricing, and clear processes so you know what you can expect to keep your budget and schedules in check.
We already have the expertise ready to start, so you don't have to spend the time or money trying to find or recruit cloud security talent. Cloud skills, especially in cloud security, are in short supply and high demand. We provide you with highly valuable cloud security insights at the fraction of the cost of a full-time cloud engineer or consultant, if you can even find one.