Triage and scoping
Figure out fast what is encrypted, what is clean, how the attacker got in, and whether they are still inside. You cannot recover safely until you know the blast radius.
A MojoSecurity service
Ransomware response and recovery, in South Florida.
Hit by ransomware, or worried you are next? Founder-led incident response for South Florida businesses. Triage, containment, recovery, and the hardening that keeps it from happening twice, run by someone who has done it on live incidents.
If you are in it right now
First hour, before you do anything else.
If ransomware is spreading right now, a few early moves protect your ability to recover. This is the short version, then call someone who has done this.
- Isolate, do not power off. Disconnect affected machines from the network so the encryption cannot spread. Unplug ethernet and disable Wi-Fi. Fully powering off can destroy volatile evidence you may need to scope the breach.
- Do not pay yet, and do not delete anything. Paying is a last-resort business decision, not a first move, and it does not guarantee a working decryptor. Preserve ransom notes, logs, and encrypted samples.
- Protect your backups. If backups are reachable from the compromised network, disconnect them immediately. Ransomware crews go after backups first.
- Get help fast. The first few hours decide how much you recover. Bring in someone who has actually run a ransomware response, not just read about one.
What we do
Ransomware response, end to end.
From the first call through to a hardened environment that is harder to hit twice.
Containment
Cut off lateral movement across endpoint, identity, and network. Isolate compromised accounts and machines, kill attacker persistence, and stop the spread before it reaches what is left.
Eradication
Remove the footholds: malicious accounts, scheduled tasks, backdoors, and the initial access path, so restoring does not just hand the environment back to the same intruder.
Recovery
Restore from clean backups where they exist, rebuild where they do not, and bring systems back in an order that gets the business running without reintroducing the infection.
Post-incident hardening
Close the door that let them in. MFA everywhere, least-privilege cleanup, tightened email and endpoint controls, tested backups, and monitoring so the next attempt gets caught early.
Readiness before it happens
Not in an incident yet? A readiness review finds the gaps a ransomware crew would use, and gets your backups, identity, and response plan in shape before you need them.
Who this is for
South Florida businesses without a security team on call.
Ransomware does not only hit large enterprises. Small and mid-sized businesses in South Florida get hit precisely because attackers assume the defenses are thin and the backups untested. If one of these sounds like you, this is the page for you.
- You are dealing with an active or suspected ransomware incident and need help now.
- You had a scare or a near miss and want to know how exposed you really are.
- You carry cyber insurance and want to answer its questions honestly before a claim, not during one.
- You have backups but have never tested a full restore, which means you do not actually know they work.
An honest note on scope: we handle response, recovery, and hardening. We are not a licensed digital-forensics firm for legal proceedings or a law-enforcement liaison, and we do not pretend to be. If your incident needs formal forensic attestation for litigation or a regulator, we coordinate with the right specialist partners and hand off cleanly.
Why us
Run by someone who has actually done it.
Real incident-response background
Mojo is founder-led by Joey Epstein, who worked incident response on live ransomware engagements across endpoint, identity, and network as a Security Analyst II at a national IT provider, with tools like Blackpoint, Huntress, and Arctic Wolf. This is not theory.
You work with the person doing the work
No junior handoff, no ticket queue during the worst day of your year. You get direct access to the person actually running your response.
Straight talk, not fear
We tell you what happened, what it takes to recover, and what to fix so it does not repeat, in plain language, without inflating the invoice with panic.
More from MojoSecurity
Response is one part of security.
Ransomware response fits inside the broader security work we do. If you want to get ahead of the threat instead of reacting to it, start with an assessment.
Get help
In an incident, or want to avoid one?
Tell us what is happening. If it is active, say so and we will move quickly. If you are trying to get ahead of it, we will scope a readiness review to your actual risk.
Let's talk
Tell us what's on your mind.
You don't need a polished brief to reach out. A two-line email about what's bugging you is plenty; we'll tell you straight if we're the right fit, and what we'd tackle first.
We'll scope the work around your workflow, goals, and timeline before quoting anything, so you know what's included before committing.
LocationBoca Raton, Florida
CoverageSouth Florida + remote nationwide
Channel[email protected]
Status Now accepting clients