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Your team gets one shot to contain ransomware before it spreads. With 64% of victims now refusing to pay (Verizon DBIR 2025), recovery readiness is everything. Practice detection, isolation, and recovery decisions with interactive tabletop exercises that simulate the same scenarios that hit Colonial Pipeline, Change Healthcare, and WannaCry -- so your response becomes second nature.
Ransomware was present in 44% of all data breaches in 2025, up 37% from the prior year. For small and mid-sized businesses, ransomware appeared in 88% of breaches. The average recovery cost excluding ransom payments reaches $1.53M, and organizations face an average of 24 days of downtime after an attack. The window to contain ransomware is measured in minutes, not hours. Teams need practiced, automatic responses to succeed -- the same kind of readiness that could have limited the impact of attacks like Colonial Pipeline ($4.4M ransom, East Coast fuel supply disrupted) and Change Healthcare ($22M ransom, nationwide claims processing halted).
Sources: Verizon DBIR 2025, Coveware Quarterly ReportsFrom first alert to full recovery -- practice every phase of a ransomware attack lifecycle
Practice with realistic ransomware variants and attack patterns modeled after Colonial Pipeline, Change Healthcare, and WannaCry
Email-based initial access leading to ransomware deployment. Practice email analysis and user response procedures.
Brute force RDP access followed by manual ransomware deployment. Test remote access security and monitoring.
Ransomware delivered through compromised software updates or vendor access. Practice vendor risk management.
Data exfiltration before encryption with threat of public release. Navigate complex negotiation scenarios.
Destructive attack masquerading as ransomware with no decryption possible. Practice disaster recovery.
Sophisticated, hands-on-keyboard attack with Active Directory encryption. Advanced containment scenarios.
Features built specifically for ransomware incident response exercises
Our AI builds ransomware scenarios around your infrastructure, industry, and threat landscape. You'll practice against the specific ransomware variants most likely to target your organization.
Watch ransomware propagate through your network diagram in real-time. Understand lateral movement, identify critical containment points, and visualize the blast radius of different response decisions.
Practice decision-making under realistic time constraints. Our scenarios inject time pressure to simulate the stress and urgency of a real ransomware incident.
Track key ransomware response metrics including time-to-containment, encryption spread rate, backup recovery time, and decision quality during negotiations.
The decision most exercises hand-wave, modelled properly. A ransom demand lands with a countdown running, and six courses of action are priced against what your environment actually earns and holds -- restore, rebuild clean, pay for a decryptor, pay for silence, a hybrid, or retire the systems.
The payment options stay locked until your team resolves sanctions screening, counsel and insurer consent, because until those are answered paying may not be lawfully available at any price. And paying never removes the rebuild: a decryption key returns data, not control, so the model always carries the eradication work and shows what it costs when the key does not work.
It is scored on process, never on the verdict -- a documented, properly authorised decision scores higher than an instinctive one whichever way it went. The exercise ends with a one-page board brief: the exposure, the obligations you missed, and what better backups and infrastructure-as-code coverage would have saved you.
Breakpoint does not recommend paying a ransom. It shows the exposure and the unresolved obligations, and leaves the decision with the people accountable for it.
Try the free pay-vs-rebuild calculatorEffective ransomware response requires coordination across multiple teams and roles
A four-step process: prep, kickoff, scenario execution, and debrief
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