Ransomware Recovery & Resilience

Ransomware recovery is the process of restoring encrypted systems and data and getting your business operating again after an attack — ideally without paying the ransom. Paying is never a guarantee: decryption tools supplied by attackers are often slow, incomplete, or simply fail, and paying marks you as a target for repeat attacks. RHC Solutions focuses on recovery from clean, verified backups and other safe methods, then on resilience: the immutable backups, network segmentation, and rehearsed recovery runbooks that mean a future infection is contained and recoverable rather than catastrophic.

In an active incident we contain first — isolating affected systems to stop the spread — then assess the scope of encryption and identify clean recovery points. We recover operations in priority order from verified backups, eradicate the attacker’s persistence so they cannot return, and then harden: immutable backups, segmentation, MFA, patching, and continuous monitoring. We finish with a tested recovery runbook and a tabletop exercise, so your team knows exactly what to do if it ever happens again. Already secure? We start at the readiness assessment and build the same resilience before an attack forces the issue.

Ransomware remains one of the most damaging threats in business. Sophos’ State of Ransomware research has repeatedly found that the large majority of organizations hit see data encrypted, and that average recovery costs run into the millions — excluding any ransom paid. Incident-response firm Coveware has reported average downtime from a ransomware attack measured in weeks, not days. And critically, paying does not reliably get your data back: many organizations that pay still cannot fully restore. The organizations that recover best are the ones that prepared — immutable backups and a tested runbook beat a ransom payment every time.