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Re: Ransomware Playbook
From: randy <marchany () VT EDU>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 10:30:41 -0400
Thanks to John Ramsey for posting their ransomware playbook template. It's got all the areas that you should cover. Ours is much simpler and is at https://security.vt.edu/incident/ransomeware_and_cryptolockers.html. -Randy Marchany VA Tech IT Security Office and Lab On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 7:49 AM John Ramsey <jramsey () studentclearinghouse org> wrote:
Everybody, The interest in playbooks, especially ransomware, is great to see (as playbooks are time consuming to create and there aren’t enough hours in the day as it is). I’ve been through a few ransomware incidents, so the playbook is battle ready. However, as some have pointed out, you’ll want to customize to your organization where applicable. When my team creates playbooks, our goal is to keep it simple and flexible and easy to follow (versus flipping back and forth as you might in a plan.) The first page is almost always how to easily and quickly contain and then triage. Once that is done, the rest is post event activities. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask me. Since the NSC is a third-party service provider for most of you, I’m happy to share what we’re doing in order to further gain your confidence in our processes to protect your data. At the end of the day, we’re one team! We also have other playbooks that I’m happy to share (maybe it makes sense for Educause or REN-ISAC or both to post what all of us are willing to share amongst ourselves. Then we’ll have a pretty robust set to select from and modify as appropriate). Here are some others that we have finalized: 1. Notifications and Escalations Playbook. This walks through the first six hours of an incident in 30-minute increments indicating what each stakeholder is doing as well as what message gets communicated and to whom. 2. DDOS Playbook. Being one of the top attacks in the Education industry, this was one of the first ones we did. Internet 2 was kind enough to provide some guidance on the playbook (which we incorporated.) 3. Foreign Travel Playbook. Actions we take when somebody travels overseas and has the requirement to take a company device. 4. Incident Handling Checklists/Chains of Custody forms. 5. Network Compromise Playbook. 6. Spoofed URL Playbook. John *John Ramsey*, Chief Information Security Officer, *National Student Clearinghouse* Certified: CISSP, CISM, PMP, CSSLP, CRISC, CGEIT 2300 Dulles Station Blvd., Suite 220, Herndon, VA 20171 P: 703.742.4428 | http://www.studentclearinghouse.org Read the *Clearinghouse Today Blog* <https://nscblog.org/> *Winner “2016 When Work Works” & “Excellence in Work-Life Balance”* *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv < SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> *On Behalf Of *John Ruggirello *Sent:* Friday, October 4, 2019 7:15 AM *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Ransomware Playbook I too am interested. *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv < SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> *On Behalf Of *Jonathon Poling *Sent:* Thursday, October 03, 2019 5:17 PM *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Ransomware Playbook CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. A ransomware playbook, especially a prescriptive one, is going to be HIGHLY specific to your environment and PPT (People, Process, Tooling) and thus will require substantial (and unique) development and refinement for your specific organization. There's a reason so many org's (and entire counties/systems) fall victim to just paying the ransom, even when it's an inordinate amount of money. There is a lot to it, completely aside from properly testing and restoring backups. I only say this all because I've built a lot of specific playbooks running the gamut for a lot of clients in a variety of verticals over the years. This is definitely one of our most involved playbooks we help people build, as it involves a lot of non-technical preparation that is not readily apparent unless you've gone through it. This is one of those things you don't want to skimp on or necessarily even copy from what others are doing, as a lot of org's aren't building the comprehensive set of processes and procedures needed for properly protecting against, operating amidst, and recovering from such attacks. At any rate, just sharing my experience and hopefully some (useful) food for thought, whichever route you end up going. Jonathon On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:15 PM King, Ronald A. <raking () nsu edu> wrote: Me too, please. *Ronald King* *Chief Information Security Officer* *Office of Information Technology* (757) 823-2916 (Office) raking () nsu edu www.nsu.edu <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsu.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cjramsey%40studentclearinghouse.org%7Cb84a5ab9c2f0479c98b308d748bc2ce7%7C8cc02fea054043a688b6069d3eac0119%7C0%7C0%7C637057845359772015&sdata=RfaDlVk2fD8bNzsbI%2FA1iSe2FB0wmRiw7ZKGSdAKSKM%3D&reserved=0> @NSUCISO (Twitter) [image: NSU_logo_horiz_tag_4c - Smaller] *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv < SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> *On Behalf Of *Joey Rego *Sent:* Thursday, October 3, 2019 5:13 PM *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Ransomware Playbook I am interested as well. Thank you. Joey Rego Associate Director of Information Security Information Technology Lynn University 3601 N Military Trail Boca Raton, FL 33462 561-237-7982 www.lynn.edu <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lynn.edu&data=02%7C01%7Cjramsey%40studentclearinghouse.org%7Cb84a5ab9c2f0479c98b308d748bc2ce7%7C8cc02fea054043a688b6069d3eac0119%7C0%7C0%7C637057845359782007&sdata=oVMfZAhat8SOqkhYxSvZK2GZmu86ByS6BnALluH8BUs%3D&reserved=0> ------------------------------ *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv < SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> on behalf of John Ramsey < jramsey () STUDENTCLEARINGHOUSE ORG> *Sent:* Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:50:20 PM *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Ransomware Playbook I have one and am happy to share! Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get Outlook for Android <https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.proofpoint.com%2Fv2%2Furl%3Fu%3Dhttps-3A__aka.ms_ghei36%26d%3DDwMFAg%26c%3DtSGu_Pc6mPnB6zIYTZr3Sw%26r%3DPTnT2JXctjp4MTPziGqcrg%26m%3DSynK17bceWMbt_dooTOo-leAVssO48qPL8MzLnn_EXI%26s%3DwPjf0flvlyR164RzC6qod76IJztI6nHPHP-lEfY7Df4%26e%3D&data=02%7C01%7Cjramsey%40studentclearinghouse.org%7Cb84a5ab9c2f0479c98b308d748bc2ce7%7C8cc02fea054043a688b6069d3eac0119%7C0%7C0%7C637057845359782007&sdata=N4fZN947B6P0sUqE2EC53z7SIAN0UfBfB9n00wcgsiY%3D&reserved=0> ------------------------------ *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv < SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> on behalf of Kip Bates < kbates () HOUSING UCSB EDU> *Sent:* Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:34:08 PM *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> *Subject:* [SECURITY] Ransomware Playbook Colleagues: I am hoping that I can find someone or someplace that has made an effort to develop a Ransomware Response playbook that they would not mind sharing. 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- Re: Ransomware Playbook, (continued)
- Re: Ransomware Playbook John Ruggirello (Oct 04)
- Re: Ransomware Playbook John Ramsey (Oct 04)
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- Re: Ransomware Playbook Barton, Robert W. (Oct 04)
- Re: Ransomware Playbook Frank Barton (Oct 04)
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