FORTINET Ransomware Protection Solutions Instructions

: June 13, 2024
: FORTINET

Table of Contents

FORTINET Ransomware Protection Solutions
Product Information
Product Usage Instructions
Executive Summary
Fortinet Services
- Prepare, Maintain, and Respond
Security Experts With Practical Experience
A Comprehensive Approach to Ransomware Preparedness
References
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FORTINET Ransomware Protection Solutions

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Product Information

The product being discussed in the user manual is a set of services provided by Fortinet to help organizations repel ransomware attacks. These services include proactive, reactive, and managed services aimed at preparing, maintaining, and responding to ransomware incidents.

Product Usage Instructions

To effectively utilize the Fortinet services for repelling ransomware attacks, follow these steps:

Step 1: Prepare
- Ransomware Assessment Service: Engage with Fortinet experts to proactively assess your organization’s security vulnerabilities related to ransomware attacks.
- Ransomware playbook development: Collaborate with Fortinet to develop a playbook that outlines the necessary actions and strategies to respond to ransomware incidents.
- Ransomware tabletop exercises: Conduct tabletop exercises with Fortinet to simulate ransomware attack scenarios and practice your response strategies.
- Incident Readiness Subscription Service: Subscribe to Fortinet’s Incident Readiness Service to receive regular updates, assessments, and processes to stay prepared against ransomware attacks.
Step 2: Maintain
- Managed detection and response: Utilize Fortinet’s Security Fabric for continuous monitoring, threat hunting, analysis, and response to malicious activity detected on your networks.
- Security awareness and training: Enhance the skills and awareness of your security staff and employees through Fortinet’s security awareness and training programs.
- Cybersecurity certification: Consider obtaining cybersecurity certifications offered by Fortinet to further strengthen the security expertise within your organization.
Step 3: Respond
- Incident response: In case of a ransomware attack, leverage Fortinet’s cutting-edge incident response and forensics technology and practices to detect, analyze, contain, and remediate the security incidents swiftly.
- Contact Fortinet’s incident response team for immediate assistance with a one-hour response time.

By following these instructions and utilizing the services provided by Fortinet, you can enhance your organization’s preparedness against ransomware attacks and effectively respond to any incidents that may occur.

Executive Summary

Today’s organizations are changing rapidly to meet the needs of the times, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) apps and cloud adoption, remote users, increased business collaboration tools, new acquisitions, and employee and security staff changes. Change is constant, whether digital transformation or pandemic adaptations in the enterprise. At the same time, ransomware continues to evolve and remains as pervasive as ever. With regular changes in tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), security teams and the broader organization must stay alert to reconnaissance-stage tactics to early footholds and, ultimately, ransomware.
Fortunately, Fortinet provides proactive, reactive, and managed services that help enterprises detect, prevent, and respond to ransomware attacks. Our expert teams work with security leaders, architects, and other team members to prepare incident-response plans, exercise their teams, manage endpoint detection and response (EDR) and the Fortinet Security Fabric, and respond to incidents. With this diversity of services to prepare, maintain, and respond, we can augment enterprise security teams and help security leaders assess and improve their state of readiness for such attacks.

Don’t Overlook the Planning
Regardless of the specific number of ransomware attacks, variants, or Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) groups, the prevalence and potential impact of this category of malware is an ongoing enterprise reality and significant concern. Meanwhile, organizations are dynamic, living entities—full of employee turnover, shortfalls in security staff resources and skill sets, and many other challenges. From cloud and new business software adoption to digital transformation initiatives to mergers, acquisitions, and other organizational changes, the technology evolutions alone make it difficult for security leaders to maintain a consistent and high level of security.
Meanwhile, most security teams are so stretched attending to their necessary daily operations that it can be easy to overlook the planning for a preemptive, proactive stance against ransomware or other threats. Add to that a lack of the right skills to be proactive, and it’s no surprise that the number one reason organizations don’t have an incident response plan is attributed to a lack of skilled internal resources.1 So, what can security leaders do to keep their organization’s risk level low?

Fortinet Services

PREPARE

Ransomware Assessment Service
Ransomware playbook development
Ransomware tabletop exercises
Incident Readiness Subscription Service

MAINTAIN

SOCaaS
Managed detection and response
Security awareness and training
Cybersecurity certification

RESPOND

Incident response

Prepare, Maintain, and Respond

Fortinet provides services that help organizations by:

Preparing with regularly updated assessments and processes for ransomware attacks
Maintaining the security of their networks against ransomware, and the skills and awareness of their security staff and employees
Responding to a ransomware attack if needed

Security Experts With Practical Experience

Preparing security organizations to address the constant threat of ransomware requires security experts with practical “on the ground” experience. Ideally, they will have:

Dealt with the latest attacks
Access to real-time threat intelligence of the latest attacker TTPs, malware families and variants, and other threat insights
Security expertise in the people, processes, and technology necessary to maintain the security of today’s changing enterprise

Fortinet proactive, reactive, and managed services bring this level of expertise to every organization we support. Backed by FortiGuard Labs experience and expertise, our facilitators, trainers, practitioners, and responders have spent decades threat hunting, analyzing malware and attacks, conducting forensics investigations, and responding to incidents.

Prepare
FortiGuard Incident Readiness Services can provide organizations with preparation for ransomware—with the expertise and experience of a team of “first responders” to cyberattacks. Firsthand experience of attacks means firsthand knowledge of the recurring gaps in cybersecurity planning, operations, and processes that let such attacks happen.
Our facilitators, playbook developers, and assessors are skilled not only with years of cybersecurity expertise but also backed by the threat insights and analysis of FortiGuard Labs. Together, they assess, test, and strengthen an organization’s incident-response plan before a security incident occurs, with:

Ransomware Assessment Service
Ransomware playbook development
Ransomware tabletop exercises
Incident Readiness Subscription Service

Maintain
In ransomware attack investigations, several key themes prevail, such as missed alerts and warnings, product misconfigurations, absent security best practices—often from staff and skill-set shortages—and inadequate employee awareness. In fact, across 1,200 organizations surveyed globally, 60% of leaders struggle to recruit cybersecurity talent, while 52% struggle to retain it.2 And 52% believe their employees lack the necessary knowledge.3
Fortinet provides several options for augmenting understaffed security teams—monitoring customer environments and threat hunting, triage and response to incidents, and working with and on behalf of security teams with the following services:

SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) 24/7 log-based monitoring, triage, and incident escalation service for FortiGates and the Fortinet Security Fabric
Managed detection and response 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, analysis, and response to malicious activity detected on endpoints based on FortiEDR and FortiXDR

To help address skill sets within the existing staff and overall employee awareness, Fortinet offers employee awareness training with timely and current awareness of today’s cybersecurity threats, as well as cyber-professional training and certification through the following services:

Security Awareness and Training to help IT, security, and compliance leaders build a cyber-aware culture
Fortinet Network Security Expert (NSE) training and certification program

Respond
Utilizing cutting-edge incident response and forensics technology and practices to assist customers with the detection, analysis, containment, and remediation of security incidents, these first responders reduce the time to resolution, limiting the overall impact on the organization from the incident.
Backed by FortiGuard experience and expertise, our incident response team calls upon decades of experience in threat hunting, analyzing malware and attacks, conducting forensics investigations, and incident response to act swiftly on incidents. With a one-hour response time,4 our team provides critical services during and after a ransomware incident.

A Comprehensive Approach to Ransomware Preparedness

For a more comprehensive approach to ransomware preparedness, our services help guide and prescribe, rather than overwhelm security leaders, to make prioritized, impactful decisions that can mean the difference in their business operations continuity.
Essential preparation to effectively handle security incidents. FortiGuard experts work with organizations to proactively assess their security—with options to test and build incident response processes, increasing the readiness to appropriately respond to an attack.

Rapid response to reduce business disruption.
Our incident response teams draw from decades of firsthand investigatory experience to respond immediately. Our teams immediately stop additional damage, contain the impact, and help minimize business disruption and recover operations from a ransomware attack.

Expert assistance to scale, reduce burnout.
Augment existing staff 24/7 with the resources, skills, and time. Giving you the power to catch and take an appropriate response to issues 24/7, with the right skill set, our teams help you do what’s necessary to protect your enterprise.

Increased user awareness, protected data, stopped breaches.
The Fortinet Security Awareness and Training service helps create a security- compliant culture where employees are trained to be more aware and knowledgeable of potential security threats. They will feel empowered to report threats when they see them.

Prepared cyber professionals.
The Fortinet NSE program of eight-level training and our certification program provide self-paced and instructor-led courses and practical, experiential exercises to demonstrate mastery and give independent validation of network security skills and experience.

Conclusion
Fortinet proactive, reactive, and managed services can help organizations prepare and respond to ever-evolving ransomware threats and maintain the resilience of their ever-changing networks. Providing security leaders with insights into their current gaps and domain-level knowledge of relevant practices that inform their ongoing cybersecurity strategies, our services and expertise can augment security teams 24/7, globally, if and as needed.

Fortinet, 2021 Ransomware Survey Report, September 2021.
Fortinet, 2022 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Research Report, April 2022.
Ibid.
Requires Incident Response Retainer Service for a one-hour response time.
ISACA State of Cybersecurity 2022, Global Update on Workforce Efforts, Resources, and Cyberoperations, page 35, 2022.

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