Building Kestrel Manufacturing's ransomware resilience program after a near-miss, when an access broker sold a warehouse VPN login to an affiliate and only a holiday pause stopped the attack: the weak steps found — SMS codes relayed in real time, a plant VPN appliance 20 months out of date and backups on the same flat network as the plant floor; the eight-step resilience staircase from exposure baseline, initial-access hardening and privilege containment through immutable backups, detection, response readiness and recovery engineering to board assurance; and a board scorecard of hard measures — phishing-resistant MFA, immutable backups with their own identities, restores tested twelve systems at a time, 24x7 monitoring and a pre-agreed ransom policy — that answers the board's one question with evidence.

CY-SENIOR-084Senior Level · Ransomware Resilience Program

Ransomware Resilience Program — The Resilience Staircase

A senior-level, board-answerable program that climbs eight steps from an honest exposure baseline to proven assurance: Threat & Exposure Baseline, Initial-Access Hardening, Privilege & Lateral Containment, Backup Immutability, Detection & Early Warning, Response Readiness, Recovery Engineering, and Governance & Assurance - at a manufacturing and distribution group with plants, warehouses, an ERP backbone, and OT-adjacent networks that had a near-miss last year and whose board wants one question answered with evidence: can we survive it. Four hands-on activities in every lesson.

16 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

Build an honest, evidenced ransomware exposure baseline mapped to real operator playbooks.
Harden initial access and contain privilege and lateral movement with PAM, AD hardening, and segmentation.
Make backups immutable, isolated, and restore-tested at scale, including identity systems.
Detect precursors, rehearse response, engineer recovery, and prove the program with a board scorecard.

Price:৳10,000