Ransomware Readiness & Recovery

From strategy to execution — flexible services and expert-led delivery to strengthen your cloud security posture.

Modern ransomware is fast, automated and unforgiving. A single click can lock up your files, stall your business and trigger days of painful recovery.

Peritus helps you prepare before an attack, respond calmly during one and recover safely afterwards, so a ransomware incident becomes a disruption, not a disaster.

Why ransomware is still winning

Ransomware has evolved from crude “screen lockers” into a mature business model. Criminal groups now:

  • Target backups as well as production data

  • Steal data before they encrypt it, then threaten to leak it

  • Use valid accounts and legitimate tools, so they look like normal users

  • Automate at scale, so you have minutes or hours, not weeks, to react

Technology helps, but it is not enough on its own. Most damaging incidents involve a mix of:

  • Gaps in backup and recovery

  • Weak identity and access controls

That is the gap this service is designed to close.

  • Poor visibility across cloud and SaaS

  • Unclear incident playbooks and roles

2. Identity, Access & Endpoint Protection

The Peritus approach

We stay vendor agnostic. We work with the tools you already have, and only recommend changes where they really move the needle.

Our ransomware readiness and recovery service focuses on four areas:

1. Assess and prioritise risk

  • Review of your current controls across identity, endpoint, email, cloud and backup

  • Mapping of critical business processes and “crown jewel” data

  • Ransomware-specific attack path review, for example how an attacker could move from a phish to domain admin

  • Clear heatmap of risk, business impact and likelihood

2. Harden and contain

  • Hardening recommendations for identity, admin access and privileged accounts

  • Review of backup strategy, retention and isolation, including restore testing

  • Email and endpoint policy tuning to reduce the chance of initial compromise

  • Network and SaaS hygiene recommendations to limit blast radius

3. Detect and respond

  • Ransomware playbook tailored to your environment and your team

  • Clear roles and responsibilities, including who decides what during an incident

  • Guidance on integrating existing monitoring, EDR or XDR tools into a simple response flow

  • Practical steps for tabletop exercises, so the first time you run the playbook is not during a live incident

4. Recover and learn

  • Recovery strategy to bring back critical services in the right order

  • Guidance on safe restore, including how to avoid reintroducing malware

  • Data exfiltration assessment and support for regulatory and customer communications

  • Post incident review approach, so each event leads to measurable improvement

IAM
(Identity and Access Management)

Control access across cloud and SaaS platforms.

EDR
(Endpoint Detection & Response)

Detect and contain endpoint threats fast.

XDR
(Extended Detection & Response)

Correlate alerts across multiple tools for a clearer threat picture.

3. Risk Management & Resilience

Reduce exposure and build resilience with integrated risk, backup, and human awareness programs.

TPRM
(Third Party Risk Management)

Know and reduce the risks your vendors introduce.

Backup & Recovery

Protect against ransomware and outages with proven recovery plans.

Human Risk Management

Build a stronger human firewall with data-driven awareness programs.

4. Microsoft 365 Security

Go beyond native Microsoft controls with layered security aligned to how real attackers operate.

Security Hardening

Identity, access, email, and endpoint protection tailored for Microsoft 365.

Threat Detection & Policy Enforcement

Proactive monitoring, alerting, and compliance across your Microsoft environment.

5. Cyber Testing & Certification

Simulate attacks and achieve compliance with expert guidance and hands-on remediation.

Cyber Security Assessments

Evaluate and improve your security posture with tailored assessments.

Penetration Testing

Simulate real-world attacks, prioritise fixes, and get free retesting on critical vulnerabilities.

6. Strategic Security & Compliance

Enhance your long-term security maturity and regulatory alignment with expert-led services.

Cyber Insurance Compliance

Map your controls to policy requirements and proactively close gaps.

Virtual CISO
(vCISO)

Strategic leadership to help you mature security, even without a full-time CISO.

Managed Security Services

Ongoing protection, visibility and compliance from cloud security experts.

Cyber Incident Exercising

Run tabletop or technical simulations to strengthen your team’s response and reporting capabilities.

Cyber Advisor Support

Assistance with regulatory alignment, CE+ prep and ongoing security questions.

Why Work With Us?

We're a UK-based team of senior cloud security specialists with a practical, delivery-first mindset. No jargon, no generic templates — just real results, fast.

Trusted by enterprise IT, loved by security teams.

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