Ransomware Incident Response Plan Released

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Aug. 1, 2016 - PRLog -- Prescriptive Risk Solutions, LLC (PRS), today released a comprehensive Ransomware Incident Response Plan. The guide, is being released in light of the significant increase of ransomware attacks on companies worldwide.  PRS' own research has found that a substantial number of organizations do not have a plan to handle a ransomware data hostage scenario.  In fact, PRS's research finds that a majority of companies simply pay the ransom in light of not knowing their options. Echoing PRS' findings is a 2016 Bitdefender™ study which found that 50 percent of ransomware victims have paid extortionists.

The PRS Ransomware Incident Response Plan is available as a digital download for $9.99.  The 25-page guide provides over 40-steps arranged by ten phases on how to handle a ransomware attack.  The guide covers topics such as assessment, removal, file decryption and even how to pay a ransom if left with no other choice. The guide is delivered in Microsoft Word format and is easily customized for any size organization.  The guide includes a ransomware incident log template and over fifty links to valuable resources that will aid organizations during a ransomware attack.

The guide was written by board certified computer security experts with over 20-years of hands-on cybersecurity incident response experience. The guide will save any organization a considerable amount of time in completing an incident response plan to address ransomware.

To download a copy of the Ransomware Incident Response Plan, go to http://www.prescriptiverisksolutions.com and visit the products tab.

PRS is a virtual security resource consultancy focused on providing small to medium size companies with the knowledge, resources and guidance to build effective information security and disaster recovery programs.  PRS consultants apply their many years of cybersecurity and disaster recovery experience to the creation of pragmatic cost-effective programs and tool kits that can jump-start any organization's security or disaster recovery initiative.

PRS maintains one of the world's largest databases of cybersecurity events containing information on over 10.6 billion compromised records across nearly 12,000 organizations. This information is used by PRS to perform fact-based threat assessments for its customers.

For more information contact PRS at info@prescriptiverisksolutions.com.