Data protection startup HYCU has launched a website to help organisations assess their ability to recover from a ransomware attack, in partnership with Carahsoft, FireEye Mandiant and SADA, Cybersecurity Graduate Programs, Boston College, and Rackspace.
The site, GetRScore.org, provides a credit-score-like assessment of survey answers to provide organisations with a simple way to determine their ability to recover from a ransomware attack.
“Effectively it’s like a credit score, but assessing your ransomware recovery capabilities,” said Simon Taylor, founder and CEO of HYCU. “It’s not about the backup, it’s about your ability to recover.”
“Over and over and over again, we see the need for something like this, that’s simple, practical, and can provide easy guidance to any customer anywhere,” he said.
R-Score uses survey answers to assess an organization’s ability to repel and recover from ransomware in five categories: backup processes, backup infrastructure, security and networking, restore processes, and disaster recovery.
“R-Score is designed to provide a framework to measure resiliency and recovery,” said Kevin Mandia, CEO of FireEye. “These are critical components to combatting ransomware actors and providing business leaders confidence that they are armed and prepared to operate in the current threat environment.”
Assessing your R-Score is free of charge, and HYCU has been careful not to capture user data or information related to generating the initial R-Score before providing you with your score. You can get your score without providing any contact information, and HYCU doesn't store your answers.
There is a more advanced report available, if customers decide they want it, and that's where the lead-gen kicks in, but this seems like a reasonable enough consent hurdle to feel genuine rather than coerced. It also helps to keep HYCU’s lead system free of garbage made up by people just trying to get a report.
“It’s simple, it’s elegant, and it tells everybody in any company anywhere exactly what they need to do to become just that much safer,” said Taylor.
Analysis
I’m often skeptical of these kinds of assessment tools because far too often they're just a thinly veiled lead generation mechanism. But in this case I find myself carefully optimistic about the potential to provide real improvements in organizational resilience.
The R-Score is essentially a consulting checklist that you can fill out yourself. HYCU has taken what their experience, and those of their partners, have told them actually matters for improving recoverability. The fact that it's public helps with transparency, and people will be able to quickly tell for themselves if it's valuable or not.
I expect there to be plenty of criticism of the tool, and that’s healthy. HYCU should listen carefully and refine the tool based on that feedback. That’s how we can move from this first, fairly simple, tool to something a bit more robust.
I consider this to be a solid and worthwhile beginning, rather than a fully complete and polished end.
The truth is the industry needed something like an R-Score to give the people with money a simple way to figure out where to spend that money on improving their security. We have abundant evidence that whatever they’ve been doing for the past several decades hasn't worked.
A credit score is a metaphor that most executives can quickly grasp, and “higher is better” is easy to understand. The tool itself, and the guidance about “How do I make the number go up?” will help drive conversations about how to take action. It should make it easier for IT teams to show where investment is needed, and to create a compelling business case for actually making it happen.
R-Score isn’t a panacea, but it is a practical step towards making things better, giving organizations a clear idea of where they are now, and what they can do to improve their score.
A tool like this is vulnerable to people lying to themselves about how good or bad things really are, and different people will answer in slightly different ways. Designing robust research tools is tricky, and we will need to be cautious about “what gets measured gets managed” incentives that lead to perverse outcomes.
But even with these substantial caveats, I think the R-Score (or something like it) will help rather than hinder. And right now we need all the help we can get.
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