Ransomware Defense & Recovery

Make ransomware a non-event.

Modern extortion crews don't just encrypt — they steal first and threaten to leak. S-Security breaks their kill chain early, keeps immutable backups they can't touch, and gets you recovered without paying.

Overview

Don't negotiate with attackers. Out-prepare them.

Ransomware is now a professionalized industry with affiliates, leak sites, and negotiation desks. Paying funds the next attack — and offers no guarantee your data comes back or stays private.

S-Security takes ransomware off the table on both ends. Up front, we harden the paths attackers use to get in and move laterally, and our hunters disrupt the kill chain long before encryption begins. Behind the lines, immutable, air-gapped backups mean even a successful encryption event becomes a fast restore, not a ransom payment. And if the worst happens, our incident response, negotiation, and recovery experts are on call to get you back in control with minimal damage.

Visualization of a ransomware kill chain being disrupted
What's included

Defense before, during, and after

Prevention, resilient recovery, rehearsal, and expert support across the entire ransomware lifecycle.

Prevention & hardening

We close the entry points ransomware exploits — phishing, exposed RDP, unpatched edge — and segment the network so a single foothold can't spread.

Immutable backups

Air-gapped, write-once backups attackers cannot encrypt or delete — your guaranteed clean restore point when everything else is held hostage.

Rapid recovery

Tested restore runbooks and clean-room rebuilds bring critical systems back fast, against RTO and RPO targets we validate, not assume.

Tabletop exercises

We rehearse a realistic attack with your leadership and IT, exposing decision gaps and muscle memory before a real incident tests them.

Negotiation support

If you're already hit, our specialists handle threat-actor communications, buy recovery time, and advise on legal and regulatory exposure.

Kill-chain disruption

Our 24/7 hunters detect the precursors — credential theft, lateral movement, staging — and sever the attack before encryption ever starts.

Our approach

Resilience built across the kill chain

Harden & rehearse

We shrink the attack surface, stand up immutable backups, and run tabletop exercises so your team is ready before the first alert.

Detect & disrupt

Hunters catch the early signs — stolen credentials, lateral movement, backup tampering — and break the chain before payloads detonate.

Contain & advise

If encryption begins, we isolate affected systems, preserve forensics, and guide the response and any threat-actor communications.

Recover & learn

We restore from clean backups, rebuild safely, and harden the gaps the attacker found so it can't happen the same way twice.

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Ransoms paid by protected clients
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Backups immutable & air-gapped
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Hunters watching the kill chain
Air-gapped backup infrastructure protecting against ransomware
Why S-Security

We've stopped the crews. We know their playbook.

  • We break the chain early. Most defenses react to encryption; our hunters cut the attack off at credential theft and lateral movement.
  • Backups they can't reach. Immutable and air-gapped, with restores we test on schedule — so a ransom note is just an inconvenience.
  • Rehearsed, not improvised. Tabletop exercises mean your leadership has already made the hard calls before a real crisis.
  • Experts on call. Negotiation, forensics, and recovery specialists step in the moment you need them.
"An affiliate got in through a contractor's account and went straight for our backups. They couldn't touch the immutable copies. S-Security contained the host in 11 minutes and we restored without paying a cent. The tabletop we'd done two months earlier is the reason nobody panicked."
Andre Laurent
Andre LaurentDirector of Security · Maison Retail
FAQ

Ransomware defense questions

What makes your backups safe from ransomware?
They're immutable and air-gapped. Once written, the data can't be altered or deleted for a set retention period — even with stolen admin credentials. Modern crews deliberately hunt for and destroy backups first, so this is the single most important control for guaranteeing recovery.
Should we ever pay the ransom?
Our goal is to make sure you never have to consider it. Paying funds future attacks, may breach sanctions, and offers no guarantee of recovery or that stolen data won't leak anyway. With immutable backups and rapid recovery in place, payment becomes unnecessary. If you're already hit without those defenses, our specialists advise on every option.
What is a tabletop exercise and why do we need one?
It's a guided simulation of a ransomware attack with your leadership and technical teams. We walk through the decisions you'd face — when to isolate, who to notify, whether to involve law enforcement — so that in a real incident those choices are rehearsed rather than improvised under pressure.
We're being attacked right now — can you help today?
Yes. Our incident response team can engage immediately to contain the spread, preserve forensic evidence, manage threat-actor communications, and lead recovery. Contact us now and we'll mobilize — every minute counts during an active encryption event.
Ready?

Find out if you'd survive a ransomware hit today

Get a free ransomware readiness assessment. We'll test whether your backups are truly recoverable and your team truly rehearsed — before an attacker does.