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Ransomware Readiness — Test your actual readiness, not just your backup policy on paper
SIRI Security's Ransomware Readiness Assessment tests your real ability to detect, contain, and recover from a ransomware attack — going well beyond confirming that backups technically exist.
62%Of cloud detections
70%Of malware detections
29.44LIncidents CERT-In handled
Why elite-tier assessment is now board-visible
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Growing gap
62% CLOUD
Cloud misconfiguration and IAM exploitation account for 62% of detections in cloud environments (DSCI) — exactly what an attacker's-POV assessment is designed to find first.
Baseline
70% MALWARE
Trojans and file infectors make up 70% of malware detections (Seqrite 2026) — a common finding once ransomware readiness is actually tested.
Effective
31 JUL 2026
RBI's 2026 Framework raises the bar on demonstrable resilience — elite-tier assessment is increasingly how regulated entities evidence it.
Baseline
6 HR WINDOW
CERT-In's notification window makes threat modelling and readiness testing a precondition for meeting the deadline once, not after, an incident starts.
Evidentiary standard
BSA 2023
Where an elite assessment surfaces material later relevant to a dispute, the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 governs how that evidence is treated.
Tested at the standard a real adversary would use
What does Ransomware Readiness involve?
Most organisations believe they're prepared for ransomware because backups exist somewhere. Ransomware readiness testing checks the parts that actually determine outcome: detection speed, lateral movement containment, backup integrity and isolation, and recovery time under realistic pressure.
We assess your detection and containment controls, test backup isolation and restoration in practice (not just backup existence), and run through recovery time expectations against your actual, current infrastructure.
Assume breach, then test the assumption
62% of cloud detections trace to misconfiguration and IAM exploitation (DSCI) — the exact blind spot an attacker's-POV, military-grade assessment is built to surface before a real adversary does.
SIRI Security delivers Ransomware Readiness to this standard directly — practitioner-led, documented, and connected to SIRI Law LLP's legal and regulatory response if a finding ever needs to go further.
What organisations get wrong
Four assumptions elite-tier assessment exists to correct
Routine testing answers 'did we pass'; elite assessment answers 'could we actually survive this.'
01 — CONFIDENCE
“Our standard testing programme already covers this”
Elite-tier assessment goes further than routine testing by design — chaining findings the way a real, motivated adversary would, not stopping at the first clean scope boundary.
02 — READINESS
“We'd cope fine if ransomware hit us”
Ransomware readiness untested is ransomware readiness assumed — and 70% of malware detections are trojans and file infectors (Seqrite 2026), the common precursor.
03 — THREAT MODEL
“Generic threat intelligence is specific enough”
A threat model built around your actual environment, assets, and adversary incentives finds what generic industry threat feeds miss.
04 — EVIDENCE
“The findings are just for our internal team”
Where an elite assessment surfaces something serious, the way it was documented matters if it ever needs to support a legal or insurance position.
What Ransomware Readiness covers
What's included, start to finish
Assessed the way a real, motivated adversary would approach it — not a generic checklist.
01
Detection capability assessment
Whether ransomware behaviour would actually be caught, and how fast.
02
Backup isolation & integrity testing
Confirming backups are genuinely isolated and restorable, not silently compromised.
03
Lateral movement resistance testing
How far a ransomware foothold could realistically spread before containment.
04
Recovery time validation
Testing actual, not theoretical, recovery time objectives.
05
Incident response plan review
Your ransomware-specific response plan reviewed for real-world gaps.
Evidence, not guesswork
Routine testing vs. self-assessed confidence vs. a SIRI elite assessment
The difference shows up exactly when a real, sophisticated threat actually arrives.
| Approach | No elite-tier assessment | Self-assessed confidence | SIRI Ransomware Readiness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attacker's-POV methodology | No | No | Included |
| Ransomware readiness tested | No | Assumed | Verified directly |
| Custom threat model | No | Generic feeds only | Built for your environment |
| Evidentiary documentation | N/A | Informal | Litigation-ready where relevant |
| Executive narrative reporting | No | Rare | Included |
Sources: DSCI cloud detection data; Seqrite 2026 threat report; RBI (Commercial Banks — Cybersecurity, Technology: Risk, Resilience and Assurance Framework) Directions, 2026; Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. Summarised for comparison.
Numbers every board should know
What elite-tier assessment is actually catching
62%
Of cloud detections
Trace to misconfiguration and IAM exploitation (DSCI).
70%
Of malware detections
Are trojans and file infectors (Seqrite 2026) — the common ransomware precursor.
29.44L
Incidents CERT-In handled
In the latest reporting year — the scale elite assessment work is measured against.
6 HR
CERT-In notification window
The deadline a tested readiness posture is built to meet.
Why SIRI for Ransomware Readiness specifically
Assessed by the same team that runs real incident response
The practitioners who run elite assessments are the same ones who contain real breaches — not a separate red-team vendor with no downstream accountability.
01
Led directly by SIRI's Head of Cybersecurity
Vikram Rao, SIRI's Head of Cybersecurity, directs offensive security and incident response and leads CERT-In breach containment for enterprise clients.
02
Court-admissible findings when it matters
Ananya Krishnan, SIRI's Digital Forensics Lead, prepares court-admissible forensic reports and testifies as an expert witness when findings end up in front of a judge.
03
Findings connected directly to legal exposure
SIRI Security runs under the same roof as SIRI Law LLP — when a finding carries real legal exposure, the engagement can be brought under attorney-client privilege from day one, not bolted on after the fact.
04
Built for RBI's specific resilience bar
Assessment scope and reporting are built to the standard RBI's 2026 Framework expects from regulated entities, not a generic red-team template.
Who this is built for
Organisations this elite assessment service is built for
Banks & NBFCs
High-profile or high-value targets
Boards demanding an honest resilience view
Organisations that have never tested ransomware readiness
Enterprises facing a sophisticated or persistent threat
How we work
From scoping to ongoing delivery
01
Scoping & Rules of Engagement
We define scope, objectives, and rules of engagement together, so the exercise targets what actually matters to your business.
Week 102
Assessment Execution
Our senior team executes the assessment, simulating realistic adversary behaviour rather than a generic scanner run.
Weeks 2–303
Findings & Debrief
We walk your team through findings in a live debrief, not just a written report dropped in an inbox.
Week 4+04
Remediation Roadmap
A prioritised roadmap ties every finding to a concrete next step, ranked by actual risk.
OngoingFrequently asked
Ransomware Readiness, answered directly
Do you actually deploy simulated ransomware?
We use safe, controlled simulation techniques that mimic ransomware behaviour without any risk of actual encryption or damage to your systems.
What's the single most common gap you find?
Backups that exist but aren't properly isolated from the production network they're meant to protect against — meaning a real attack could compromise both simultaneously.
How long does this take?
Most engagements in this category run 3 to 6 weeks depending on scope, with senior specialists involved throughout.
Who on our side needs to be involved?
We typically work with your security lead and relevant technical owners; for tabletop-style exercises, leadership involvement is part of the value.
Test the assumption, not just the perimeter
Scope Ransomware Readiness.
Most engagements start with a short scoping call to agree objectives and rules of engagement.
Talk to SIRI Security: +91 79819 12046
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