Along With Key Security and Solutions Partners, New Initiative Available at GetRScore.Org. Companies Now Have Easy to Use Way to Measure Ransomware Recovery
HYCU, Inc., a pioneering enterprise software company specializing in multi-cloud data backup and recovery as a service, announced a new public service to help organizations identify and measure their ability to effectively recover in the inevitable event of a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks have been occurring at an alarming rate over the past 18 months with an attack happening on average every 11 seconds1. Available as a free service, directly from www.GetRScore.org, R-Score is the culmination of months of work with leading data protection and cybersecurity experts and partners.
“It’s become a tired cliché that it’s not a matter of if but when a company will be faced with a ransomware recovery incident,” said Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO at HYCU, Inc. “As much as all of us in technology would like to believe we can eliminate ransomware attacks, the focus needs to be on rallying the industry around a way of quantifying and measuring what steps can, and should, be taken to avoid having to pay exorbitant ransoms for companies to get their data back. Today we are extremely excited to announce R-Score along with our supporting partners.”
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In less than ten minutes, any organization that is interested in understanding how ready they are to recover from a ransomware attack can get their R-Score at GetRScore.org. R-Score represents a first of its kind assessment tool that scores an organizational ransomware recovery readiness similar to the way Fair and Isaac set up the FICO scoring system more than thirty years ago.
R-Score uses entered data to assess an organization’s preparedness to repel and recover from ransomware attacks in five key categories:
- Backup Process
- Backup Infrastructure
- Security and Networking
- Restore Processes, and
- Disaster Recovery
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Once the questions are answered, an R-Score is generated within a range of 0 to 1,000. In addition to the score, users will get steps to take to improve their overall score. No user data or information related to generating the initial R-Score is stored or captured in any user identifiable form. A f**************** is available to better understand what measures and steps could be taken to improve an organization’s overall R-Score.
“There has always been more of a focus around backup in the industry versus what companies really care about which is recovery,” said Enrique Salem, Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, which led HYCU’s $87.5M Series A round earlier this year. “Industry-wide initiatives like R-Score that allow organizations to better prepare themselves in the inevitable event of a recovery in light of ransomware need to be more widely adopted and applauded.”
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