Monitoring deep, dark and surface web to detect exposure of your sensitive data, secret projects and initiatives, privileged users, critical systems, IT infrastructure, and more.
Monitoring and alerting of third party data breaches impacting your employees’ emails, usernames, and personally identifiable information.
Assess the risk footprint and security posture of key business relationships to get a handle on external risk introduced through your extended attack surface.

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Digital risk monitoring of key personnel with telemetry and risk metrics. VIPRecon provides broad coverage of social media, deep and dark web, as well as physical threat assessments.
Our Ransomware Response Readiness Assessment, Playbook and Table Top Exercise gives your organization the best chance to survive and recover.
Gain visibility of your digital footprint by reaching into the most active areas of the cyber underground.
Fully managed and tailored Threat Intelligence services that becomes an extension of your current security processes and provides real-time visibility on new threats.
Providing research and investigations into known threats, to save security teams time and stress during a cyber emergency.

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GroupSense offers a comprehensive package of services for assessing and responding to ransomware attacks, including negotiations with threat actors.
Actively researching and monitoring threats from vendors or third-party companies that can affect organizational security.
Monitoring for threats to elections, VIPs, and more on social media to proactively prevent or mitigate digital risk.
Focusing on the threats and risks that matter to your security processes and providing intelligence and insights to prevent or mitigate digital risk.
Taking the next step in security services, by proactively taking down phishing sites or anonymously interacting with threat actors to provide better intelligence.
Active monitoring of your brand's digital assets to protect its reputation and stop further brand abuse from targeting unsuspecting victims.

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Combining your cyber and fraud programs to effectively fight threat actors continually scamming or threatening assets within an organization.
Executives are prime targets for fraudulent activities, but with a proactive approach, any attacks or threats can be neutralized before causing any damage.
Governments, political parties and candidates must all act now to activate cyber threat intelligence services to harden their information security and get ahead of inevitable cyber threats to the election process.
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Podcast: The Current- Examining the threat of ransomware attacks

By External Author on Jun 7, 2021 8:45:00 AM

The U.S. government says it's taking ransomware attacks as seriously as terrorism after meat plants and a major U.S. pipeline network were temporarily shuttered by hackers. But will that make it any easier to catch the perpetrators? Joe Uchill, a senior reporter with online cybersecurity publication SC Media, brings us the view from Washington. We also speak with Kurtis Minder, founder and CEO of GroupSense, which helps organizations defend against cyber threats; and David Shipley, co-founder and CEO of Fredericton-based cybersecurity startup Beauceron Security.

Topics: News Ransomware Podcast

Bloomberg Quicktake "Take the Lead" with Kurtis Minder

By External Author on Jun 4, 2021 9:30:00 AM

Kurtis Minder, #GroupSense CEO, speaks to Bloomberg about ransomware and ransomware negotiations  at 41:52. 

Topics: News Video Ransomware

A cybersecurity expert takes us inside a ransomware attack on a 70-employee company

By External Author on Jun 2, 2021 11:00:00 AM

At GroupSense, there’s such a demand for ransomware remediation services they’ve added a hotline that’s featured prominently on the frontpage of their website. No one escapes this form of cyberthreat, Minder told Insider.

Topics: News Ransomware

Meet the ransomware negotiators you hope you'll never need

By External Author on Jun 1, 2021 9:30:00 AM

Kurtis Minder has some advice about how to negotiate with criminals who extort millions of dollars by crippling companies’ computer systems and stealing their data: Don’t call them “bad guys.”

Topics: News Ransomware

How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers

By External Author on May 31, 2021 8:00:00 AM

A few days after Thanksgiving last year, Kurtis Minder got a message from a man whose small construction-engineering firm in upstate New York had been hacked. Minder and his security company, GroupSense, got calls and e-mails like this all the time now, many of them tinged with panic. An employee at a brewery, or a printshop, or a Web-design company would show up for work one morning and find all the computer files locked and a ransom note demanding a cryptocurrency payment to release them.

Topics: News Ransomware

Podcast: Ransomware Negotiators Step In When Companies Are Hacked

By External Author on May 25, 2021 8:45:00 AM

Ransomware attacks that lock up a victim's systems have become more common. So have people who negotiate with the hackers on behalf of the victims. Kurtis Minder, co-founder of the cyber reconnaissance startup GroupSense, discusses what those negotiations are like, and cybersecurity reporter David Uberti discusses how this approach is viewed within the cyber community. Christopher Zinsli hosts...

Topics: News Ransomware Podcast

Ransomware Boom Forces More Companies to Cut Deals With Criminals

By External Author on May 20, 2021 8:45:00 AM

Kurtis Minder got into the ransomware negotiation business by accident early last year.

Topics: News Ransomware

Brace for ransomware attacks, Midsize Pharma

By External Author on May 19, 2021 9:00:00 AM

“Industrywide, there is a lack of attention to some of the common things that cause breaches and open companies up to ransomware,” Maley says. “We’re becoming immune to these types of things, as they happen more frequently. We’re seeing the same things across sectors. It’s a lack of attention to the basics.”

Topics: News Ransomware

GroupSense Unveils Ransomware Response Readiness Assessment

By Editorial Team on May 19, 2021 8:45:00 AM

Since the publishing of this blog post, GroupSense has rebranded the R3A into the Ransomware Response Readiness Subscription (R3S). You can find more information on the R3S service here.

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ARLINGTON, Va., May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- GroupSense, a digital risk protection services company, today announced its Ransomware Response Readiness Assessment (R3A) service offering.

GroupSense's threat intelligence team, including experts who have extensive experience remediating ransomware attacks, will provide three core functions as part of this new service: a readiness assessment, to identify gaps in ransomware response capabilities; a response playbook, to provide a step-by-step action plan should an attack occur; and a tabletop exercise, to test and validate the playbook.

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Cyber insurance companies need to focus more on risk profiles - and less on security ratings scores

By External Author on Apr 23, 2021 8:30:00 AM

Security ratings services have become a popular way for companies to assess their own cybersecurity posture, as well as that of their partners. And, while they are useful for establishing a data baseline of competence, they are often relied on as something more than that. For example, they’re used in boardrooms as “eye candy” to portray the state of company cyber-risk, with supply chain partners to manage third-party risk and, even more frightening, by insurance companies to create risk profiles for cyber-insurance policies.

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