You’ve suffered a cyber attack - what happens next?
Cyber incident first responders
How do you negotiate with the attacker, restore your systems, and recover after the incident?
With over 25 years experience investigating cyber incidents, STORM Guidance helps businesses affected by cybercrime to coordinate an immediate and quality technical response. As part of this service, our specialists will perform a technical forensic investigation for the recovery of IT and coordinate expert ransomware negotiation to minimise loss.
Alternatively, STORM provides individual aspects of our incident response services to prop up your existing teams.
incident response services
How can we help?
STORM's cyber incident response services include:
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Digital investigations
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Crisis management & incident coordination
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IT Recovery
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Legal and Crisis support
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Tracing and recovery of funds
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PII discovery and notification
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Executive/board briefing
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Trauma counselling services
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Threat actor engagement, ransom negotiation, sanctions checking, ransom settlement, and ransom tracing
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Initial impact assessment, post incident impact assessment and cost analysis
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Secure communication and data sharing platforms
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Post incident reporting including full remediation advice
What we do
When your business has suffered a breach, acting fast can be the difference between recovery and disaster.
You will need to secure a stable position with intelligence-based analysis of your risk and formulate tactical options to minimise loss. We work with clients and their legal advisors to obtain a clear picture of potential impact and how best to respond.
Recovery
Our Ransomware First Responders will obtain the best position possible and drive the best attainable outcome.
STORM specialists determine what data has been encrypted, the path they took to gain entry, and negotiate with extortionists to recover it, enabling you the space to focus on internal recovery.
Ransomware response
STORM's ransomware response services
Investigation & response
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24/7 access to specialists
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Coordinated investigative and restorative response
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Procurement of decryption tools and execution of decryption process
Ransom settlement
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Full sanctions checks and reporting with any necessary liaison with law enforcement & regulators
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Facilitate payments in a range of cryptocurrencies
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Complete financial accounting and interaction with insurers where required
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Blockchain analysis & tracing
Threat actor engagement
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Former Law Enforcement Agent extortion negotiators
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Complete Operational Security (OpSec) compliance and identity protection
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Formulation and execution of client sanctioned negotiation objectives to drive optimum outcomes
Recovery support
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Legal and crisis advice
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Fast decryption capability
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Public relations support
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Trauma counselling for victims of crime
Why STORM Guidance?
Effective processes, informed decisions and empathetic understanding
We work with you to ensure that an effective process is followed, and key decisions are informed, with quality intelligence and empathetic understanding. We have extensive experience of digital investigations in both commercial and law enforcement.
Our experts are former Law Enforcement Agents specialising in kidnap and ransom negotiations, bringing calm and rigor to assist in achieving the very best outcomes. We have extensive experience in digital investigations and crisis management, enabling you to maximise the quality of response to ransomware, and minimise losses.