Ransomware Resilience Playbook 2026
Ransomware crews have industrialised. This playbook covers the seven controls that separate rapid recoveries from month-long outages.
1. Immutable, tested backups
Air-gapped or object-locked backups with quarterly restore drills.
2. Segmentation
East-west controls, identity-based micro-segmentation, and just-in-time admin.
3. EDR + 24×7 SOC
Behavioural detection tuned to your environment, escalation SLAs under 15 minutes.
4. Identity hardening
Phishing-resistant MFA, tiered admin model, credential vaulting.
5. Tabletop exercises
Quarterly board-level ransomware simulations with legal and comms teams.
6. CERT-In & regulator readiness
6-hour reporting playbook with pre-approved templates.
7. Recovery runbook
Documented, rehearsed, versioned. Executed in hours, not days.
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