Case studies / 03 · Ransomware response · Recovery & hardening
Ransomware contained in under 24 hours.
A new client engaged Secure Data Solutions (SDS) after ransomware struck its outdated data center during the holiday period. SDS contained the attack in under 24 hours. We then led technical recovery and rebuilt, upgraded, and hardened the infrastructure.
- Sector
- Enterprise data center
- Containment
- Under 24 hours
- Environment
- Data center with 8-year-old hardware
- Scope
- Containment, recovery, hardening
- <24 h
- Containment
- 8 yr
- Hardware age
- Months
- Rebuild & hardening
Technical recovery and reconstruction of an outdated data-center environment.
Situation
Security, backup, and lifecycle work had been deferred in the outdated data center, which was running on 8-year-old hardware. The ransomware attack came during the holiday period.
Timeline
Containment · under 24 hours
Hands-on analysis stopped the spread in under 24 hours. An immediate firewall change removed an overly broad permission.
Restoration & rebuild · the following months
Technical recovery covered VMware, Cisco UCS, storage, Windows, Citrix, SQL, firewall, and VPN dependencies. Reconstructed operations from fragmented evidence where documentation no longer matched the environment.
Hardening · after the rebuild
Rebuilt and upgraded infrastructure, tightened firewall rules, and reviewed obsolete VPN paths. This work addressed the deferred security, backup, and lifecycle issues.
Containment took under 24 hours. Rebuilding and hardening filled the months that followed. That period was engineering work, not outage time.
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Tell us about the environment, the problem, and the change you need. You'll speak directly with an engineer at Secure Data Solutions (SDS) about scope and next steps. Secure Data Solutions works on-site in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties and up through Polk County. We also work remotely and travel when needed.