Cybersecurity
Ransomware protection
Your protection evolves as threats change
Ransomware is one of the most damaging threats your business can face. Tactics change quickly. New vulnerabilities appear. Attackers find new ways to get in, move around, steal passwords, and encrypt systems.
That is why we stay focused on ransomware every day.
We follow new threats, monitor attacker tactics, look for exposed vulnerabilities, and adjust protections as risks evolve. Our goal is to make it as difficult as possible for ransomware to succeed against your business.
Ransomware protection your business can count on
Our cybersecurity team leads the way on ransomware prevention, but the responsibility doesn't stop there. It's built into how we manage networks, deploy systems, support users, run projects, monitor environments, and protect our clients every day.
The controls we put in place
24/7 environment monitoring
Your systems, devices, and network activity are monitored for suspicious behaviour.
Backup protection
Backups are designed with the worst case in mind: even if an attacker gets high-level access, your backups still need to be protected and recoverable.
Device protection
Computers and servers are protected with advanced tools that help detect and stop malicious activity.
Ongoing system updates
Updates and vulnerabilities are actively managed so attackers have fewer opportunities to get in.
Controlled access
Only the systems and access that truly need to be available are exposed and only to the people who need them.
Limiting the damage of a breach
Your network is not treated like an open buffet. Systems are separated so one compromised device does not automatically give access to everything.
Blocked malicious websites
Known malicious websites are blocked with DNS filtering before your team can accidentally visit them.
Preparing for the worst
Recovery planning and tabletop exercises are conducted to make sure everyone knows what to do if a serious incident happens.
Your protection depends on more than tools
Ransomware defence cannot rely on a single product, a single alert, or a single backup.
You need layers of protection, but more importantly, you need a team that knows what ransomware looks like, understands how attackers operate, and keeps improving your defences as threats change.
At S3, our cybersecurity team reviews new attack techniques, tracks vulnerabilities as they are disclosed, monitors your environment for suspicious activity, and adjusts your protections before attackers find a way in. We do not wait for an alert to tell us something is wrong. We look for signs that something might go wrong.
The tools matter. But the team behind them matters even more.
Preparation is your best protection against ransomware
No one can honestly promise that ransomware will never happen. What we can promise is that we will always take the threat seriously, put the right protections in place, and that your team is ready if the worst happens.
With S3, ransomware protection is built into how your IT is managed every day: from monitoring and patching to password protection, network security, backups, and response planning.
Frequently asked questions
Ransomware is a type of attack where cybercriminals lock you out of your files and demand payment to get access back. Attackers typically get in through a phishing email, a stolen password, an unfixed software flaw, or compromised remote access. Once they’re inside your systems, they’ll often move around quietly for a while before actually triggering the attack.
Éric Bouchard
Cybersecurity Team Manager
Honestly, no one can guarantee it’ll never happen to you. What we can do is make your business as hard a target as possible, limit the damage if a threat does slip through, and make sure your backups are solid and recoverable when you need them. At the end of the day, the goal is to cut down the risk as much as we can and be ready to act if the worst does happen.
It’s usually the first thing attackers go after, because they know a business with clean backups has no reason to pay. At S3, we design our backups around the worst case scenario (one where an attacker manages to get high level access) to make sure they hold up if that were ever to happen. Local backups are kept completely separate from the network, and the ones we keep in the cloud come with extra protection.
Éric Bouchard
Cybersecurity Team Manager
It really depends on how prepared the business was before the attack happened. With the right backups in place, a recovery plan that’s already been tested, and a team that knows exactly what to do, recovery often happens in hours or days rather than weeks. At S3, we work with our clients to help them prepare and respond, and we run tabletop exercises so everyone’s ready well before an incident ever happens.
Éric Bouchard
Cybersecurity Team Manager
We rely on a set of complementary tools that work together rather than a single miracle fix. That includes endpoint detection and response (EDR) to monitor and stop suspicious activity on every device, advanced firewall monitoring to catch abnormal network traffic, DNS filtering to block malicious sites before your users ever reach them, external vulnerability scanning to find weak spots before attackers do, and secure backups that are kept completely separate from the network. No single tool is enough on its own, which is why we combine all of them with 24/7 monitoring from our cybersecurity team.
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