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When cyberthreats happen, you want the best and you want help fast. The Unit 42® Retainer brings you both.

With a Unit 42 Retainer in place, our experts become an extension of your team – available on speed dial – any time you need assistance.

Respond fast to minimize the impact of an attack and get back to business sooner. Or use Retainer credits for proactive services, to assess, test and improve your security program.

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How do I get help during a cybersecurity incident?
Incident Response
Respond with confidence. Partner with experts.
How do I identify and prevent the cloud threats most likely to impact our business?
Cloud Security Assessment
Secure your business everywhere it happens.
How can I evolve our SOC to stay ahead of emerging threats and enhance our capabilities?
SOC Assessment
Transform your SOC for better threat detection and response.
How can I secure our AI environments and stop associated threats?
AI Security Assessment
Embrace the power of generative AI with confidence and boost innovation.
How can I safely pressure test our defenses against real-world attack scenarios?
Incident Simulation and Testing Services
Pressure test your defenses against real-world threats.
How do we validate our plans to prevent and respond to ransomware?
Ransomware Readiness Assessment
Enhance your preparedness against ransomware attacks. 
How do I move to a Zero Trust architecture?
Zero Trust Advisory
Implement a comprehensive Zero Trust strategy.
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Incident Response

Your Challenge

Cyber incidents are escalating in frequency and sophistication, posing a significant threat to your organization’s security. Swift detection, response and recovery are essential to minimize damage and ensure business continuity. However, the growing complexity of IT environments and the evolving tactics of cyber adversaries make effective incident response challenging.

Our Solution

Unit 42 Incident Response services offers expert-led, rapid response to cyber incidents, utilizing advanced threat intelligence, threat hunting and forensic capabilities. We help you identify, contain and mitigate threats, ensuring quick recovery. Post-incident, we provide analysis and recommendations to strengthen your defenses against future attacks.

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AI Security Assessment

Your Challenge

As generative AI projects emerge across your organization, it’s crucial to support AI innovation while managing associated risks. You need visibility into AI use and development and must address new threats like data poisoning.

Our Solution

The Unit 42 AI Security Assessment identifies threats specific to your AI environment using our threat intelligence and AI experise. We define your unique threat profile and provide security best practices to mitigate risk without hindering AI innovation. Ensure confident AI adoption, secure employee use and protect against emerging AI-related threats.

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Cloud Security Assessment

Your Challenge

The dynamic nature of the cloud introduces visibility and skills issues, making it difficult to track and protect your assets. You face strategic challenges in prioritizing and allocating resources and your teams need clarity on the delineation between cloud security provider responsibilities and their own.

Our Solution

The Unit 42 Cloud Security Assessment leverages threat intelligence and cloud security expertise to identify and mitigate threats most likely to impact your business. We help establish cloud security best practices, prioritize immediate remediations and create a long-term roadmap to strengthen your cloud security program.

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Ransomware Readiness Assessment

Your Challenge

Ransomware attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated, with higher ransom demands and increased pressure to pay. You need to assess your organization’s exposure and preparedness to prevent and respond effectively to an attack. Will you know what to do if a ransomware attack happens?

Our Solution

The Unit 42 Ransomware Readiness Assessment evaluates your preparedness, identifies potential vulnerabilities and offers recommendations to strengthen defenses. Based on real-world experience, this proactive approach helps you mitigate risk and minimize damage from ransomware attacks. As ransomware evolves, so should your defenses.

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SOC Assessment

Your Challenge

With the rise of malware-as-a-service (MaaS), cyberattacks that once took weeks now happen in hours. To stay ahead, your SOC must detect threats faster than attackers can execute them, but how do you know if you have the right people, processes and technologies?

Our Solution

The Unit 42 SOC Assessment enhances SOC efficiency and effectiveness by leveraging our threat intelligence and SOC expertise. We identify your attack surface and tailor recommendations based on your unique threat profile, creating a roadmap for SOC excellence.

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Zero Trust Advisory

Your Challenge

The traditional security model, based on implicit trust within an organization's network, is no longer adequate for modern digital environments. Digital transformation, cloud adoption and advanced threats require a new approach, but transitioning to a Zero Trust architecture can be complex.

Our Solution

The Unit 42 Zero Trust Advisory helps you adopt a modern cybersecurity approach by eliminating implicit trust and continuously validating digital interactions. Our experts will guide you through the entire Zero Trust journey, from building a common understanding to creating an implementation roadmap and designing effective policies to protect your critical assets.

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Incident Simulation and Testing Services

Your Challenge

Preparing for dynamic, targeted attacks in today’s threat landscape is difficult. You may lack the expertise and environments to safely and effectively simulate threats and test your incident response plans, increasing the risk of breaches and data compromises.

Our Solution

Unit 42’s Incident Simulation and Testing Services enable you to test your defenses in a controlled setting.

Through Tabletop Exercises, Penetration Testing and Purple Team Exercises, we simulate real-world attacks to help you assess your environment from a threat actor’s perspective. These exercises, tailored for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, provide practical experience in detecting, responding to and recovering from cybersecurity incidents.

You’ll be able to verify the effectiveness of your security measures and, if necessary, make proactive adjustments tailored to your organization.

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