Talos IR ransomware engagements and the significance of timeliness in incident response

Talos IR ransomware engagements and the significance of timeliness in incident response Cisco Talos routinely responds to ransomware engagements where the impact could have been mitigated or wholly prevented if the victim organization had initiated remediation efforts earlier in the attack lifecycle. The significance of early intervention in ransomware attacks is particularly exemplified by two recent Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) ransomware engagements. In one incident, the victim engaged Talos IR immediately after discovering malicious activity alerts. Talos IR worked swiftly to combat additional malicious activity and prevented the execution of any encryption in the environment. Conversely, in a second incident, the victim ignored alerts of malicious activity and did not Talos IR until after the ransomware binary began to execute. Talos IR was then not provided network access for analysis for over a day, during which time the actors achieved nearly 100% host encryption. While t...