Penetration Testing

To Win, Wear Every Hat

---

Ransomware is one of the most persistent and relevant cybersecurity concerns of this age. While ransomware is not new, tactics are shifting. Formerly, threat actors would lock up data, making it inaccessible to victims unless a ransom was paid. Some chose to pay. Many didn’t, relying either on good backups or the belief that retrieving the hostage data wasn’t worth the cost or the risk of dealing with cybercriminals.

Today’s more targeted attacks exfiltrate data and leverage extortion techniques, increasing the pressure to pay ransoms. Victims often are left with the odious choice between paying – further increasing the adversary’s resources – or having their sensitive and precious data disclosed to the world. 

At the same time, the ransomware-as-a-service market continues lowering the barrier to entry for less sophisticated actors while providing another revenue stream for ransomware authors. In this environment, protecting against ransomware means updating protection strategies to meet the evolving threat.

Services for Threat & Attack Simulation

For more secure results, customers must shrink attack surfaces, identify and analyze possible threats, modernize tools, assess policies and procedures, and test, test, test.

Structured offers the following threat and attack simulation services to probe existing defenses for weaknesses so that they can be remediated.

---