Ransomware Readiness
Test your defenses against real ransomware — safely, controlled, and with expert guidance.
Most organizations don’t truly know how well their tools would perform during a real ransomware attack. Our Ransomware Readiness Assessment changes that. Instead of relying on questionnaires or theoretical modeling, we help your team deploy a fully instrumented test machine with your actual security controls, EDR, logging, and policy stack — exactly as they exist in production.
We then execute live, real-world ransomware TTPs in a safe, controlled environment to measure one thing:
Can your defenses see it, alert on it, block it, and stop lateral movement before impact?
This isn’t simulation.
This isn’t emulation.
This is real attacker behavior, executed safely against a controlled host to reveal what your security stack will actually do under pressure.
Our Approach
We don’t run scanner reports — we run attack paths.
Our assessment executes a curated sequence of techniques used by modern ransomware operators, including:
- Initial access & execution techniques
- Credential harvesting & privilege escalation
- Lateral movement & discovery behaviors
- File encryption precursors
- Data staging & exfiltration attempts
- Impact-phase behaviors (minus destructive encryption)
Every action is run live, observed in real time, and mapped to how your controls respond.
AI-Augmented Adversarial Testing
Real adversaries don’t scan. They chain attacks — so do we.
CinderLabs combines senior-level offensive security experience with automated, AI-driven reconnaissance and ATT&CK-aligned workflows. Our custom-built n8n + agentic tooling accelerates discovery, correlates data at scale, and identifies the most probable attack paths — giving you deeper, more accurate results than traditional pentesting.
- Attack-path focused
- Offense-informed defense
- AI-aware threat modeling
Our AI-enhanced capabilities include:
- Automated attack-surface enumeration
- AI analysis of DNS, SSL, cloud metadata, Shodan, and OSINT
- Prioritized exploit chains based on probability and impact
- MITRE ATT&CK TTP simulation workflows
- Faster reconnaissance → more time spent on real exploitation
- AI-driven clarity in reporting and remediation guidance
This hybrid approach — human expertise + AI acceleration — means your test is faster, more thorough, and more realistic.
Deliverables
You don’t just get a report — you get a roadmap.
Our deliverables translate complex adversarial testing into clear, actionable guidance built around real-world attack paths and business impact. Everything is structured to help engineering and leadership teams take action immediately.
You get a crystal-clear picture of:
- What your tools detect
- What your tools block
- What slips through silently
- Whether alerts are meaningful or noisy
- How fast your current configuration responds
- Which configurations are working — and which need tuning
This gives your team real-world visibility that no vendor demo, lab test, or theoretical assessment can match.
Guidance You Can Act On
You don’t just get a report — you get a roadmap.
We translate our findings into practical, environment-specific recommendations:
- EDR & SIEM tuning to improve signal fidelity
- Policy and prevention enhancements
- Detection rule adjustments
- Logging improvements for visibility gaps
- Suggested hardening steps to slow or stop attack progression
- Validation steps your team can repeat any time
The result is a ransomware defense surface that is measurably stronger, backed by evidence, not assumptions.