Cybersecurity Response Services
Professional Incident Recovery & Ransomware Response
Cyber attackers will gain access to and remain embedded on an insecure system for months while remaining undetected. Using their covert presence, they'll begin to siphon off data while mapping out the network and stealing credentials to further embed themselves in the technological assets. When facing an actor that has breached past the existing security defenses of an organization, the response must be swift and whole. Unfortunately, most breaches are only made aware of upon the discovery of data loss, ransomware, financial or crypto theft, or blackmail.
A cyberattack can bring an entire business to a halt;
Response time is critical to a successful recovery.
Molloy DSG takes a proactive approach to this reactionary state, determining the root cause, mitigations, and potential culpability. The fact is, in 2025 no organization has an excuse for being breached; mitigations exist to harden all the common attack vectors. Response to an event and the mitigations in place after are of equal importance.
Intrusion response is comprised of a playbook that can be summed up as a wholistic approach. Molloy DSG takes these steps to ensure the highest likelihood of recovery with minimal downtime.
- Isolate affected nodes from each other, and affected network from the internet
- Notify appropriate departments (treasurer/accounting, HR, executive, etc.)
- Determine the highest permissions available to the attacker
- Further examine the depth of intrusion and take countermeasures where necessary
- Determine affected configuration, snapshot, and user data availability
- If ransomware'd, determine if necessary to fulfill ransom
- Save logfiles for forensic examination to determine breach scope and root causes
- Take action to wipe and restore any devices critical to core functionality
- Restore snapshots of servers and core operating environments
- Reprovision all client devices and anything downstream
- Verify access provisionings for all tertiary services and providers
- State of information technology system must be verified as safe before going online
- Root cause must be determined and mitigation put in place
Network and system intrusions must be delt with immediately and all data kept for examination to determine several factors such as the vector and method of attack, evidence of exfiltration, chances of a remaining infection, accesses to external or subsidiary services, access or exfiltration of any data, and to assess any damages to data in the system. Without a proactive approach, a second attack could take a business out for good.
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