Security News > 2021 > July > CISA Adds Ransomware Module to Cyber Security Evaluation Tool
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday announced the release of a new module for its Cyber Security Evaluation Tool, namely the Ransomware Readiness Assessment.
A Department of Homeland Security product, CSET was designed to help organizations assess their security posture, and is applicable to both IT and industrial control system networks.
The new Ransomware Readiness Assessment module gets defenders through a step-by-step process to assess their threat readiness in respect to ransomware attacks.
"The RRA is a self-assessment based on a tiered set of practices to help organizations better assess how well they are equipped to defend and recover from a ransomware incident," CISA explains.
The tool was crafted for several different levels of ransomware threat readiness, so that all types of organizations can use it, regardless of their current preparedness or cybersecurity maturity.
The RRA offers ransomware threat readiness evaluation in a systematic, disciplined, and repeatable manner, helps assess both operational technology and IT network security practices, and delivers an analysis dashboard with graphs and tables to view assessment results.
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