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Fortinet Ransomware Readiness Assessment Service Guide
Learn about the Fortinet Ransomware Readiness Assessment service. This guide covers the assessment process, NIST Cybersecurity Framework domains, and service options for strengthening your organization's incident response.
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Quick Guide to Ransomware Readiness Assessment
The FortiGuard Ransomware Readiness Assessment is a professional service designed to evaluate an organization's ability to withstand ransomware attacks. It provides a baseline of your current security posture, identifies critical gaps, and offers prioritized, actionable recommendations to improve incident response maturity.
The Assessment Process
The assessment is conducted by FortiGuard incident responders and typically takes less than a week to complete. The process involves:
- Document Review: Analyzing existing incident response plans and playbooks.
- Stakeholder Interviews: Focused discussions to clarify current practices and answer questions.
- Gap Analysis: Identifying vulnerabilities and the potential impact of those gaps.
- Prioritization: Establishing a roadmap of actions to mitigate risk and return the organization to an acceptable risk level.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework Domains
FortiGuard assessors utilize the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) as the foundation for the assessment. The framework evaluates five functional domains:
- Identify: Assessing IT and business-critical assets, threat intelligence, and vulnerabilities.
- Protect: Evaluating defenses that prevent ransomware vectors or halt lateral movement.
- Detect: Checking visibility into attacker activity before a full strike occurs.
- Respond: Reviewing the game plan for technical options, communication, and business impact.
- Recover: Ensuring clean, protected backups and large-scale mitigation planning.
Service Options
Fortinet offers two primary ways to engage with this service:
- Standalone Assessment: A one-time evaluation to establish a baseline and receive recommendations.
- Incident Readiness Subscription Service: A one-year subscription that includes one readiness assessment, sixteen initial service points (64 hours) for playbook development and testing, and digital forensics support with a one-hour service-level objective.
Manufacturer information
Fortinet, Inc.
Practical help
Common problems
Uncertainty regarding ransomware preparedness
Engage in the assessment process to establish a baseline and identify specific security gaps.
Lack of incident response playbooks
The subscription service includes dedicated hours for playbook development and tabletop exercise testing.
Before use
- Identify key stakeholders for assessment interviews
- Gather existing incident response documentation and playbooks
- Define business-critical assets and IT infrastructure
- Review current security hygiene practices
- Determine if a standalone assessment or subscription service is required
Specs in practice
- Service Points
- 64 hours of dedicated service time included in the annual subscription for playbook development and testing.
Model compatibility
- Service is applicable to organizations seeking to improve incident response maturity against ransomware.
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