Free checklist
Ransomware Readiness Checklist survive a real Tuesday?
Most organizations discover the gaps in their backup strategy during the incident. This is the checklist we run with new clients — 21 questions that separate a plan that exists from a plan that works.
Checklist · 21 points · PDF
- You have backups, but nobody has restored one this year.
- You are not certain which systems come back first, or in what order.
- You have never tested whether your backups themselves are clean.
- Someone has asked you for recovery evidence and you improvised.
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What is inside
Everything it covers
- 01 Which systems must come back within one hour — and whether anyone has agreed that list
- 02 Where your backups live, and whether ransomware can reach them from a compromised admin account
- 03 Whether backup data is immutable, and for how long
- 04 The last time a full restore was performed end to end, not just a file-level test
- 05 Who is authorized to declare an incident out of hours
- 06 Whether your recovery runbook exists somewhere that survives the outage
- 07 How you would prove to an auditor or insurer that any of the above is true
Why we give this away
Because the organizations that run it and find nothing were never going to buy from us anyway — and the ones that find three gaps usually already suspected. Either way you are better off knowing.
Questions
Before you download
- Do I need to be a client?
- No. Take the checklist, run it yourself, and if everything passes you have saved yourself a phone call.
- How long does it take to work through?
- About an hour if you have the answers to hand. The point is finding the questions you cannot answer.
- Will you follow up?
- One email a week later asking whether anything on it worried you. That is it.
Rather talk it through? Call 703-336-9700.