Ares Cyber Intelligence
ARES Cyber Intelligence GmbH
ARES Cyber Intelligence GmbH consists of an international team of experts with many years of experience and top references. We support our customers in all aspects of their corporate security.
Together with our clients we aim to identify the risk of a threat as early as possible and to prevent cyber attacks before the company suffers damage. We also help our clients during a cyber attack as well as post-incident.
We act discreetly and trustfully in the interest of our clients.
Total Cost of Ransomware
Scenario
- You discover cryptic files - the entire infrastructure is down - passwords and access to systems won’t work
- User report problems with passwords to the internal IT
- Ransom is being demanded – The average ransom amounts between 150.000 $ and 300.000 $
- Information to the CIO or CEO
- Disconnect company network from internet connection
- In this case: Normal incident response plan is put in place (If non-existent: short-term crisis management needs to be put together (Internal/External).
- Strongly advise against: Independent negotiation with hacker!! Experienced experts are required!
Total Cost of Ransomware Calculation
Ransom (average)
250.000 €
+ Lost Business Productivity (20.000 – 50.000€ )
35.000 €
+ Extra hours for employees (IT, Management)
50.000 €
+ Costs for external teams
100.000 €
+ Data Protection Authority (DSB) penalty payment (20.000 - 60.000)
40.000 €
+ Emergency operations
50.000 €
+ Contractual penalties arising from SLA’s (up to 200.000)
100.000 €
TOTAL
1.205.000 €
- The average ransom is increasing on a yearly basis and dependent of the yearly revenue of the targeted company.
Scenario
- You discover cryptic files - the entire infrastructure is down - Passwords and Access to Systems won’t work
- User report problems with passwords to the internal IT
- Ransom is being demanded – The average ransom amounts between 150.000 $ and 300.000 $
- Information to the CIO or CEO
- Disconnect company network from Internet connection
- In this case: Normal Incident Response Plan is put in place (If non-existent: short-term Crisis Management needs to be put together (Internal/External).
- Strongly advise against: Independent negotiation with Hacker! Experienced experts are required!
Total Cost of Ransomware Calculation
Ransom (average)
255.000 €
+ Lost Business Productivity
(20.000 – 50.000€ )35.000 €
+ Extra hours for employees
(IT, Management)50.000 €
+ Costs for external teams
100.000 €
+ Data Protection Authority (DSB)
penalty payment (20.000 - 60.000)40.000 €
+ Emergency operations
50.000 €
+ Contractual penalties
arising from SLA’s (up to 200.000)100.000 €
TOTAL
1.205.000 €
- The average ransom is increasing on a yearly basis and dependent of the yearly revenue of the targeted company.
+ What’s not on the bill but could cost you a fortune
+ Manager liability
+ Damaged company reputation
+ Dissatisfaction concerns and loss of trust
- Customer, Partner, Supplier, Stakeholder and your employees
+ Data loss
- Recuperated data can be reused for other malicious activities
- Data reappears on the darknet
- Blackmail
- No safe retrieval of encrypted data
- Data remains encrypted even after the ransom was paid.
+ Possible loss of clients
+ Employee stress and morale concerns