Ransomware

Staying one step ahead to avoid business disruption.

Security threat

Chances are, you’ve heard a lot about ransomware in recent years. You may even have experienced a ransomware attack in your business. It’s the no. 1 security threat on the minds of CISOs and with more complex strains and sophisticated delivery methods emerging all the time, it’s little wonder. Hackers are putting more effort into the commercialisation of ransomware – turning it into a commodity that’s easier to source and execute. Because of this, ransomware is no longer the sole concern of big businesses. The speed at which malware can be deployed means attackers can afford to fire indiscriminately in the hope of getting lucky.

Ransomware is a concern for businesses because of its impact, and ultimately what it will cost. Pay up, and it’s an instant financial loss or even risk double extortion. Don’t, and the economic impact of a stall in business operations caused by malware can equally add up. Not to mention the reputational damage if news of your attack reaches your customers or the public, or if sensitive data is leaked as the result of an attack. What’s more, statistics show that once an organisation is breached, they are more likely to be a target again in the future. Strong defences and deep analysis of vulnerabilities is key protecting your business and with that, customer trust.

How we help

Response time is everything – how quickly you quarantine the threat will stop or limit the encryption that occurs. Our real-time monitoring works in real-time to detect inbound threats and then help us to act fast. 

Our technology focuses on monitoring and protecting data stores where they reside, whether on premises or in the cloud. 

We help you pinpoint the financial impact of both historic or potential ransomware attacks, helping you to achieve smarter security economics by understanding spend versus risk. 

With SOC and SIEM services wrapped around our anti-ransomware technology, our service goes deeper than simply responding to a threat in the moment. 

Our incident analysis report looks into the root cause of any breach you’ve experienced or even near misses – interrogating every user action or vulnerability which could have allowed malware into the network. 

We keep asking questions until we find the full answer, lessening your chances of falling victim to another attack in the future. 

We make proactive recommendations about how to protect your business, highlighting communications and file types that could contain malware and combatting strategies that threat actors are choosing to adopt. 

Our experts can advise on user best practice for your business and identify risky user behaviour – such as repeatedly clicking malicious links – using log feed monitoring. 

Benefits

Experts on watch – experts keeping watch over your business

Get ahead of the threats – identifying the threats before they have a chance to do harm

Multi-layered protection – right technologies assembled to deliver the best defence

Orchestrated response – the right people doing the right things at the right time

Peace of mind – confidence your business is managing risk and compliance

Our universe of SOC solutions

Our Managed Services align you with a world-class security operations centre (SOC) solutions tailored to your business and budget. Both tech and team work in tandem to solve security challenges, combining intelligent analysis with vigilance and real-time remediation. Proud to deliver affordable, enterprise-grade solutions, we have a SOC for everyone.

Following an initial assessment of your IT environment, needs and budget we define a suite of bespoke SOC offerings that includes the right balance, number, and combination of solutions to meet your business objectives.

Mars

2 protections

Jupiter

3 protections

Saturn

4 protections

Uranus

5 protections

Neptune

6 protections

Essential

Our entry-level offering, Essential SOC services help your business take the first steps to stronger security. Preventative tech, managed by an expert team, reinforces what you have today.

Essential SOCs

Professional

Our Professional SOC services take your security to the next level by identifying, investigating and quarantining threats both inside and outside your business.

Professional SOCs

Enterprise

A bespoke, premium service, our Enterprise level SOC offering delivers proactive cyber threat hunting, analysis, and remediation in real-time. It’s the ultimate in IT protection.

Enterprise SOCs

The SOC to fit your need and budget

We don’t believe in a one-size-fits all approach to security, which is why we offer a wide range of SOC solutions, each tailored to specific business needs and categorised into three options depending on your projected security spend. If you’re looking to protect your business from ransomware, we recommend exploring these options:

Essential: Mars

siem, ar

Monthly charge: £3,628

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Anti-ransomware and Security Information and Event Management
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Intellectual property and brand protection
  • Defend against ransomware

Essential: Jupiter

vm, siem, ar

Monthly charge: £5,251

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Security Information and Event Management, Vulnerability Management and Anti-ransomware
  • Award-winning technology
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Improve cyber resilience

Essential: Jupiter

siem, ar, ids

Monthly charge: £5,185

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Security Information and Event Management, Anti-ransomware and Intrusion Detection System
  • Award-winning technology
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Protect business services
  • Protect ecommerce sites

Professional: Jupiter

dlp, siem, ar

Monthly charge: £5,723

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Security Information and Event Management, Data Loss Prevention and Anti-ransomware
  • 4 award-winning technologies
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Intellectual Property and brand protection
  • Protection for remote workers

Professional: Jupiter

siem, mdr, ar

Monthly charge: £8,166

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Security Information and Event Management, Anti-ransomware and Managed Detection and Response
  • Award-winning technology
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Defend against ransomware

Professional: Saturn

vm, siem, ar, ids

Monthly charge: £6,304

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Security Information and Event Management, Vulnerability Management, Anti-ransomware and Intrusion Detection System
  • 2 award-winning technologies
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Reduce supply chain risks
  • Protect business services

Professional: Saturn

vm, siem, mdr, ar

Monthly charge: £9,269

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Security Information and Event Management, Managed Detection and Response, Vulnerability Management and Anti-ransomware
  • 2 award-winning technologies
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Improve cyber resilience
  • Defend against ransomware

Professional: Saturn

dlp, vm, siem, ar

Monthly charge: £5,534

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Security Information and Event Management, Vulnerability Management, Data Loss Prevention and Anti-ransomware
  • 5 award-winning technologies
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Reduce security costs
  • Achieve regulatory compliance
  • Prevent data loss
  • Protect against policy violations

Enterprise: Uranus

dlp, vm, siem, mdr, ar

Monthly charge: £11,081

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Security Information and Event Management, Managed Detection and Response, Data Loss Prevention, Vulnerability Management and Anti-ransomware
  • 6 award-winning technologies
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Reduce supply chain risk
  • Improve end user trust management
  • Intellectual Property and brand management
  • Protection for remote workers

Enterprise: Neptune

dlp, vm, siem, mdr, ar, ids

Monthly charge: £12,934

Includes

  • All software licenses and upgrades for Vulnerability Management, Data Loss Prevention, Managed Detection and Response, Security Information and Event Management, Anti Ransomware and Intrusion Detection System
  • 7 award winning technologies
  • Proactive defence
  • Reactive defence: automated
  • Reactive defence: incident response playbooks

Benefits

  • Reduce security costs
  • Improve cyber resilience
  • Protect your ecommerce business
  • Defend against insider threats

What could a breach cost your business

Our Cyber Incident Calculator is designed to help you understand the financial implications of a breach for your business and support a business justification for your security investment.

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Accountancy firm defends against a ransomware attack

37 %

of organisations reported a ransomware attack in 2021

£1.3 m

average remediation cost in 2021

21 %

of IT budgets to cyber security now devoted to cyber security

100 %

customers protected with sub-second automated defence

58 %

of businesses attacked paid the ransom

Liam opens an email attachment from a known client; unfortunately his client’s laptop has been compromised and he opens a document infected with ransomware.

The ransomware starts to encrypt his shared folders, but in a sub-second response his desktop is quarantined by our anti-ransomware system which alerts the SOC team in real-time.

The SOC team notified the client’s IT team and commence incident response processes, using their SIEM they performed root cause analysis which identified the entry method of the malware (via email). The SOC obtained a copy of the malware for analysis in their malware labs, they detonated the malware safely to study its behaviour and identify its spreading mechanism to find it was wormable (able to spread across the network on open ports to vulnerable systems). Armed with this knowledge the SOC guided the IT Team during the recovery process to ensure the malware was not persistent and did not reinfect the systems after recovery or reattempt encryption.

To further protect the client from future attacks, the SOC team deploy real-time vulnerability scanning agents on workstation and servers to ensure the hosts are hardened and patched to the latest level to protect against wormable ransomware.

37% organisations reported a ransomware attack in 2021

One in 6 of those attacked was hit with a ransom and 58% paid up

Average remediation cost in 2021 was £1.36M

The average firm now devotes 21% of its IT budget to cyber security – a jump of 63%

100% customers protected with sub second automated defence