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Advanced · Self-paced learning

Ransomware Readiness and Executive Decisions

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An extortion message puts your organisation under time pressure. Prepare initial protective instructions, identify specialist contacts and escalation routes, and decide what information senior management needs.

In the case, attackers claim to have stolen data and set a short deadline. Decide who preserves evidence and secures access, which specialists check the claim and what information senior management needs by when. If the deadline expires before further findings arrive, revise your procedure and identify the remaining uncertainty. You can use your completed version to prepare your own area.

The course does not provide incident response, negotiation, forensic services or individual legal advice. Payment decisions and possible reporting duties require separate assessment in the relevant jurisdiction.

What you will work on

  • Identify decision-relevant uncertainty in an extortion incident
  • Assign activation, escalation and external advice to roles
  • Incorporate an exfiltration claim and a new deadline into the procedure

Who it is for

  • Senior executives
  • CISOs and information security leaders
  • Crisis management leads

Topics

  • Operational consequences and extortion pressure
  • Information needs and source quality
  • Crisis activation and decision rights
  • External legal, forensic and communication advice
  • Recovery assumptions and evolving incidents

Your result

Your ransomware working pack covers initial actions, specialist contacts, claim checks and escalation routes. Use it to prepare for and update an extortion incident.

Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with organisational crisis or information security processes. For preparation in your own area, an overview of critical services and access to relevant decision roles are sufficient. A substitute case allows completion without sensitive information.

Format and approach

Planned as four to five hours of self-study with staged case decisions and self-checks with explanations.

Planned learning time: 4–5 hours

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