MALWARE ANALYSIS

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Malware is developing at such a rapid pace and with such complexity that the likelihood that your organisation will be affected by a malware outbreak is almost certain, that is if it hasn't happened already.

Some organisations believe that by purchasing and deploying a piece of software across their network that they won't ever be affected by a malware outbreak, based on our collective experience this is not the case.  We believe that you have to understand what the malware is, how it works, how it communicates with the outside world, how it spreads in order to develop an effective malware analysis capability.

Some of the best anti-malware solutions can be evaded, so you have to ask yourself.

• How effective is our ability to detect malware that we may have received in emails or via removable media?
• If malware is present on our network how will we manage it and contain the potential for it to spread?
• Is our IT department equipped to handle, contain and recover from a malware outbreak?
• Do we even have a well defined, tested procedure for business users to report malware?
• Can we forensically analyse malware to understand how it works, spreads and communicates?
• Can we analyse malware to extract IOCs (Indicators of Compromise) that can be used to improve our detective capability?

If the answers to any of these questions is that you don't have something in place or is ineffective in supporting the detection,  containment and recovery from a malware outbreak then we can help.

Would you rather spend £50,000 on a malware programme or £500,000 to decrypt your data that has been encrypted by ransomware that you could have prevented?, we like to think the choice is obvious.