CIO Bulletin

CYPFER – Recalibrating and restoring businesses that experience cyber-attacks with power, grace, and ease

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Founded in 2019, CYPFER is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with employees across North America. The company employs 40+ people and has immediate plans for 30 new hires in Q3. Long-term plans for CYPFER include adding leading-edge technologies and infrastructure to serve markets in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Q. Why CYPFER?

CYPFER provides 24/7 service to businesses, organizations, and governments any time on a global scale. CYPFER combines deep experience in structured, exceptionally creative and threat intelligence enriched negotiation techniques to deliver results that far surpass markets statistics for cyber-extortion and ransomware events team of cybersecurity professionals works with several prominent global insurance carriers, leading law firms and Fortune 1000 organizations.

CYPFER’s clients are diverse as is its workforce and include SMB businesses of all sectors including financial, manufacturing, distribution & logistics, legal, insurance, professional services, educational institutions, research facilities, healthcare, governments, public infrastructure and not-for-profit. CYPFER combines deep experience in structured, exceptionally creative and threat intelligence enriched negotiation techniques to deliver results that far surpass markets statistics for cyber-extortion and ransomware events.

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Incident Restoration and Remediation

Cyber-attacks are conducted by people. Majority of attacks are not automated in the sense that there is a person and sometimes multiple people working together to bring your organization down to its literal knees. These criminals have evolved over the years to utilize more efficient methods of attacks, and also impact. The criminal industry has realized that organizations are willing and able to make significant payments to get back to operations in the quickest possible manner and as ransom payouts increased, the criminals have “re-invested” some of these profits in streamlining and optimizing their operations.

CYPFER can help your business recover from ransomware attacks by deploying specialized teams to preserve key evidence for further investigation while rapidly restoring your environment to an operational state and minimizing business interruption costs. If negotiations and payment facilitation services are required, they can work with your business managers to deliver second-to-none such services. If your company is impacted by ransomware, contact us right away as in many cases there are deadlines set by threat actors before information about the attack is leaked to the public.

CYPFER has handled some of the most complex extortion attacks from around the globe. An extortion event may occur where threat actors conduct a campaign against a particular organization, its digital assets and in some cases even virtual currency reserves or wallets and where a certain outcome has been achieved where suppression of publication or return of stolen assets is required. In majority of cases the motivation is financial but not in all cases. They have handled extortion related to family disputes, business disputes, crypto-currency theft, intellectual property theft, and even bullying.

Incident Response

The more you know about the threat’s your organization faces, the less vulnerable you are to increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. CYPFER gives you that knowledge. A Cyber Attack Simulation exposes both known and unknown vulnerabilities by their team of elite cyber consultants acting like a cybercriminal and putting your defenses in a real-life threat scenario. Leveraging their years in cyber security, their experts have created proven methodologies that span multiple technologies and security control areas, from physical security to personnel and procedural security controls, to system and application-level penetration.

CYPFER incident response teams are available with minimal notice, supporting your organization in its technical, legal, social and HR response to a breach event. They work with your existing breach response plans or utilize their dynamic breach response methodology to identify, contain, remove and recover during a security incident. Their team members have experience in cyber breach incidents that include politically motivated attacks, device theft origination, data extortion, rogue employees, and mail misdirection with the intent to deceive.

They understand how a cyber-attacker thinks. Their approach goes beyond traditional penetration testing, which often excludes the very tactics, assets, or locations most valuable to attackers. Utilizing their expert dark/deep web team, they go beyond the traditional open source information to understand an attacker’s point of view. This enables us to quickly identify the security gaps in how an organization’s most valued assets are being protected, areas other firms miss. They look at every attack surface because they know the real-world cyber-criminal will target any vulnerability.

Daniel Tobok | Chief Executive Officer

Daniel Tobok is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cypfer Inc. He is an internationally recognized cyber security and digital forensics expert, as well as a serial entrepreneur who has created and successfully divested a number of cyber security companies. Mr. Tobok has more than 20 years of hands-on experience in all facets of cyber intrusions and hacking incidents as well as forensic digital investigations.

Mr. Tobok is an Advisor to the Board, of The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB). He is a tireless educator about the increasing frequency of cyber threats, the threats to business, the loss of privacy, and the need for constant vigilance. Reporters, editors, and producers have sought his opinion and commentary on security breaches and breaking security stories. He has been interviewed by The Financial Post, The Globe and Mail,The Lawyers Weekly, The Law Times, CTV, CBC, CityTV, Global Television, BNN and Bloomberg.