Ransomware Protection
Ransomware protection across prevention, segmentation and immutable tested backups, plus 24/7 incident response. Fixed price, free scoping call.
Ransomware protection is not one product, it is a posture: the layered defences that stop an attacker getting in, the segmentation and privilege limits that stop them spreading, and the tested backups that get you running again if the worst happens anyway. We build all three for your organisation so a ransomware attempt ends as a contained nuisance rather than a company-wide shutdown and a ransom demand.
SafetyBis is a European offensive-security team. In the ransomware cases we help clean up, the pattern is depressingly consistent. The way in was an unpatched edge device, an exposed remote-desktop service, a phished password or a login without multi-factor. The way it became a catastrophe was a flat network, over-privileged accounts and backups that had never actually been tested. Every one of those is fixable in advance, and fixing them is far cheaper than paying to recover.
What ransomware protection actually covers
Real protection works across the whole attack, not just the moment of encryption. It reduces the ways in, limits how far an intruder can move, protects the backups that are your last line of defence, and rehearses the response so that a real event is a procedure rather than blind panic. Buying a single tool and calling it ransomware protection is how organisations end up surprised.
Closing the ways in
Ransomware almost always enters through a small number of well-worn doors. Shutting them is the cheapest and most effective protection there is, because an attack that never gets a foothold never gets anywhere.
Exposed remote access and unpatched edge
Internet-facing remote-desktop services, VPN appliances and other edge devices are the classic entry points, especially when they are unpatched or protected only by a password. We find what you have exposed, get it patched or taken off the public internet, and put strong authentication in front of anything that must stay reachable.
Stolen and weak credentials
A phished or reused password is the other common start, and it walks straight past defences that assume a valid login is a trusted one. Multi-factor authentication on every account, especially remote access and administrators, blocks the majority of these, and we pair it with monitoring for the leaked credentials that feed the attacks.
Phishing and the human route
Many intrusions begin with an employee opening the wrong attachment or link. Hardening email with enforced authentication and filtering, combined with awareness training that builds the instinct to pause, cuts down the first click that so many ransomware incidents trace back to.
Stopping the spread
Getting in is not the same as taking you down. The difference between one encrypted laptop and a paralysed company is what an attacker can do once they have a foothold, and that is something you control in advance.
Segmentation
A flat network lets an attacker move from a single compromised machine to your servers, backups and everything else. Network segmentation walls off those zones so a foothold in one does not open the rest, buying time and containing the damage. This is one of the highest-value changes most organisations can make.
Least privilege
Ransomware crews hunt for admin rights, because encrypting a whole estate needs broad access. When accounts hold only the privileges they actually use, a compromised user cannot reach far, and the attacker has to work much harder for the escalation that mass encryption requires. Stripping back standing admin rights is quietly one of the best defences you have.
Catching the precursors
Before encryption there is reconnaissance, credential theft, backup tampering and security-tool disabling. Watching for those behaviours gives you a window to intervene, and for clients who want continuous coverage we can pair this with managed detection and response so a human acts on the early signals.
Backups: your last line of defence
If prevention and containment both fail, backups are what stand between you and paying a ransom. The trouble is that most backup setups are quietly broken in exactly the ways ransomware exploits, and nobody finds out until they try to restore during a crisis.
Immutable and air-gapped
Modern ransomware deliberately seeks out and encrypts or deletes your backups first, because an attacker who destroys your recovery options has far more leverage. Immutable backups cannot be altered once written, and air-gapped copies are physically or logically out of the attacker’s reach. We build your backups on the 3-2-1 principle, three copies on two types of media with one kept off-site and offline, so there is always a clean copy the attacker never touched.
Testing the restore
A backup you have never restored is a hope, not a plan. We test restores so you know they work, how long they take, and that the data is intact, before you ever need them for real. Discovering that your backups are corrupt or incomplete in the middle of an incident is a common and avoidable disaster.
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Free 20-minute scoping call, a fixed price with no hourly surprises, and a free retest once you fix what we find.
Rehearsing the response
Even the best prevention can fail, so knowing what to do in the first hour matters enormously. We run tabletop exercises that walk your team through a realistic ransomware scenario: who decides, who to call, how to isolate systems, what to tell customers and regulators, and how recovery actually proceeds. Practising this when nothing is on fire means that if a real attack lands, people act from a plan instead of freezing. A tested incident-response plan turns a chaotic emergency into a sequence of known steps, and it is one of the cheapest forms of resilience you can buy. For an active incident, our 24/7 incident response team can step in directly to contain the attack and lead recovery.
How we build your posture
We deliver ransomware protection as a staged programme that reduces real risk at each step rather than a single sweeping change. We start with an assessment: where you are exposed, how an attacker would move, and whether your backups would actually save you. From that we prioritise the highest-impact fixes, usually closing exposed remote access, getting MFA everywhere, and hardening backups first, because those block the most common and most damaging paths. Then we work through segmentation, least privilege and the precursor monitoring that catches an attack in progress, and we rehearse the response so your team is ready. Within the first weeks you close the gaps that cause most incidents, and over the following months the deeper resilience falls into place.
The double-extortion problem
Modern ransomware crews rarely just encrypt your files any more. Before they trigger encryption they steal a copy of your data, then threaten to publish it on a leak site unless you pay, a tactic known as double extortion. That changes the calculation in a nasty way: even a flawless backup gets your systems running again, but it does nothing about the fact that the attacker holds your customer records and is threatening to dump them. This is why prevention and containment matter as much as recovery. Stopping the intrusion early, before the exfiltration stage, is the only reliable defence against the data-theft half of the threat, and it is why we put so much weight on closing the entry points and catching the precursors rather than trusting backups alone to save you.
What you get
The outcome is an organisation that can take a hit and keep running.
A prioritised hardening plan
A clear assessment of your ransomware exposure and a ranked plan of action, so you fix the entry points and backup weaknesses that matter most before spending effort anywhere else.
Resilient backups and recovery
Immutable, air-gapped backups built on the 3-2-1 model with tested restores and a documented recovery time, so paying a ransom is never your only option.
A rehearsed response
A tested incident-response plan and regular tabletop practice for your team, with a direct line into our 24/7 incident response if an attack ever gets through your defences.
Compliance and standards
Ransomware resilience maps onto the frameworks European businesses answer to. ISO 27001 A.16 covers incident management and A.12.3 covers backup, GDPR treats a ransomware attack that exposes personal data as a reportable breach, and DORA and NIS2 place explicit expectations on operational resilience, backup and recovery for financial and essential-service firms across the EU. Our documentation is structured so the protections and the tested recovery plan serve as evidence you can hand to an assessor.
Pricing
Ransomware protection is delivered as a hardening programme plus optional ongoing protection, scaled by the size of your environment and how much you want us to run. The programme is quoted after a free scoping call, and the ongoing tiers below are billed monthly.
| Plan | What’s covered | Response | Price per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Ransomware exposure assessment, entry-point closure, MFA rollout, backup review, prioritised hardening plan | Business-hours support | from €250/month |
| Growth | Segmentation and least-privilege work, immutable air-gapped backups with restore testing, precursor monitoring, guidance | Same-day support | from €450/month |
| Enterprise | Full resilience across a larger estate, tabletop exercises, tested recovery plan, continuous monitoring, detailed reporting | Priority support | from €900/month |
| Managed protection + IR retainer | Ongoing protection and monitoring with a pre-agreed 24/7 incident-response SLA and led recovery if an attack lands | 24/7, defined SLA | from €800/month |
| Custom / large estate | Complex or regulated environments, multi-site and hybrid, scoped to your needs | on scoping | custom |
Every engagement is fixed-price, quoted after a free 20-minute scoping call, with no hourly surprises and an assessment included. Get a fixed quote
FAQ
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European organisations that cannot afford days of downtime or a ransom decision: manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, professional services and any firm whose sector has been hit and that wants prevention, resilience and a tested recovery plan in place before an attack, not after.
Security you can prove
The same standard on every engagement, big or small.
Evidence, not opinions
Every finding ships with a reproduction and proof of concept — no vague "maybe vulnerable".
Humans over scanners
Certified engineers find the logic flaws and chained attacks automated tools walk straight past.
Fixed price, free retest
You know the cost up front, and verifying the fix is part of the deal — not a second invoice.
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Free scoping call, fixed price, free retest. Tell us what you're running and we'll take it from there — usually within one business day.
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Scoping is free. We reply within one business day, and under 30 minutes for active incidents.