CyberSteward™
CyberSteward™: Trusted Advisors in Threat Actor Engagement, Negotiations, and Cyber Resolutions
CyberSteward™ is more than a cybersecurity provider—we are trusted advisors with deep expertise in threat actor engagement, cyber-extortions, complex negotiations, and settlement facilitation. Connect with us to secure a trusted partner in navigating your toughest cyber challenges with confidence and precision.
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Your Trusted Advisor in Cyber Threat Resolution
As cyber threats evolve, businesses face growing risks from sophisticated attacks, ransomware demands, and insider threats. CyberSteward™ is more than a cybersecurity provider—we are trusted advisors with expertise in threat actor engagement, complex negotiations, and settlement facilitation. Our team ensures that each response is strategic, compliant, and aligned with data privacy standards, combining technical insight with seasoned negotiation skills to protect your business and preserve its integrity.
Responding to cyber threats requires more than technical expertise—it demands a nuanced understanding of compliance, regulatory frameworks, and a decisive approach rooted in legal precision. At CyberSteward™, we go beyond standard cybersecurity services. Our team leverages an in-depth knowledge of data privacy laws and cyber dispute resolution to make decisions that protect both your data and your legal standing.
Unlike traditional cybersecurity firms, CyberSteward integrates legal insights directly into our response strategies, ensuring that each action meets the highest standards of compliance and strategic advantage. This approach allows us to navigate the intricacies of cyber extortion, ransomware negotiations, and regulatory compliance with a rigor that sets us apart. With CyberSteward, you’re not just resolving incidents—you’re preserving your reputation, data integrity, and long-term resilience with unmatched expertise.
Cyber Risk Advisory & Consulting
Comprehensive Cyber Investigations
Our investigative team excels in uncovering the root causes of cyber incidents. We conduct thorough investigations to identify vulnerabilities, assess the extent of breaches, and provide actionable insights. With CyberSteward™ by your side, you can be confident in understanding the full scope of any cyber threat and taking proactive steps to prevent future incidents.
Services Offered:
- Cyber Incident Investigation
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Breach Impact Analysis
- Forensic Analysis
Ongoing Proactive Cyber Support and Monitoring
Cybersecurity is an ongoing battle, and CyberSteward™ is committed to providing continuous expert advisory and support. Our services include dark web monitoring and threat intelligence, keeping you informed about emerging threats and potential risks. We stay ahead of cybercriminals by constantly analyzing their activities, ensuring your business is protected against evolving threats.
Services Offered:
- Dark Web Monitoring
- Advanced Threat Intelligence and Analysis
- Continuous Vulnerability Assessment
- Cyber Threat Hunting
Incident Response & Monitoring
Expertise in Emergency Incident Response & Breach Management
When a cyber incident occurs, immediate and effective response is crucial. CyberSteward™ specializes in rapid incident response, breach management, and strategic cybersecurity incident advisory. Our team of seasoned emergency incident response experts is available globally 24/7, ready to take decisive action to mitigate damage, recover data, and restore operations. We handle the complexities so you can focus on your business.
Services Offered:
- Rapid Emergency Incident Response
- Breach Containment and Management Advisory
- Data Recovery and Restoration Support
Cyber Advisory Services
Cyber-Extortion Incident Response
Master Cyber Dispute Resolution™ Specialists
Facing a cyber-extortion and/or ransomware attack is a stressful and daunting experience. CyberSteward’s seasoned cyber dispute resolution advisors and expert negotiators (if, and as may be required) have extensive experience dealing with cyber-extortion and threat actors. We engage directly with the cybercriminals, leveraging our advanced threat intelligence and extensive experience and understanding of their tactics to inform and implement outcome-driven strategies and action plans. Our goal is to achieve swift and effective resolutions, minimizing downtime and financial loss for your organization.
Services Offered:
- Strategic Cyber Dispute Resolution™
- Cyber-Extortion and Ransomware Negotiations
- Threat Actor Investigations, Engagement and Communications
- Operational and Financial Impact Mitigation
- Cyber-Extortion Settlement Advisory
Our Process for Managing and Resolving Cyber Threats
At CyberSteward™, we have developed a comprehensive methodology and process to handle cyber-extortion and ransomware incidents efficiently and effectively to ensure the best possible outcomes for our victim clients. Our approach is methodical, transparent, and focused on minimizing disruption and restoring normalcy swiftly.
- Understand Client Impact: We begin by thoroughly evaluating the impact of the ransomware attack on your business operations, stakeholders and partners, identifying critical areas and affected relationships.
- Identify Malware & Ransomware: Our experts quickly determine the specific type of ransomware involved, which is crucial for tailoring our response and the data recovery strategy.
- Identify Threat Actor Group: We leverage our extensive advanced intelligence database to identify the threat actor group / counterparty responsible for the attack, which is crucial for understanding the adversary’s tactics, techniques and procedures and their potential for continuous extortion and harassment tactics.
- Provide Unique Threat Actor Advanced Intelligence: We supply detailed information about the threat actors, including their past behavior and negotiation patterns.
- Safe & Secure Threat Actor Engagement: We engage in secure negotiations with threat actors, prioritizing your safety and interests.
- Transparency: Throughout the Threat Actor engagement and negotiation process (if required), we maintain complete transparency, keeping you informed of every development and providing our strategic guidance and advice
- Risk & Outcome Analysis and Strategic Advisory: We conduct a thorough analysis of potential risks and outcomes to inform our dispute resolution strategy and guide potential tactics and outcomes.
- 24/7/365 Coverage: Our team is available around the clock to manage negotiations, ensuring timely and effective communication with threat actors.
- Full Transparency: During the negotiations, resolution and settlement process, we ensure you have a clear understanding of every step taken.
- Sanctions and Compliance Checks: We perform rigorous ongoing compliance and sanctions checks throughout our engagement, to ensure all actions meet legal and regulatory standards.
- Settlement Facilitation Advisory: Only if necessary (always as a last resort), we can provide advisory and can coordinate and securely facilitate necessary settlements to the threat actors, adhering to all safety, sanctions and compliance protocols.
- Compliance Reporting & Documentation: We provide a comprehensive Compliance & Sanctions Report and documentation of the entire settlement process for your records and cyber-insurance policy claim.
- Decryption Tools: We supply the necessary decryption tools to restore access to your data.
- Post-Incident Documentation: Our team prepares detailed documentation of the incident and the response actions taken.
- Insurance Documentation: We assist with preparing documentation required for insurance claims, ensuring you can recover any eligible losses.
- Decryption Support: We offer ongoing support to ensure successful data decryption and recovery, minimizing any residual impact on your operations.
- Incident Response Retainers: We offer incident response retainer services to provide immediate support in case of future incidents, ensuring you have expert assistance on standby.
- Customized Cybersecurity Plans: Our team works with you to develop customized cybersecurity plans tailored to your business needs and risk profile.
- Continuous Monitoring: We can provide continuous monitoring services to detect and respond to threats in real-time, enhancing your overall security posture.
- Threat Intelligence Updates: Stay informed with regular updates on emerging threats and vulnerabilities relevant to your industry.
- Training and Awareness: We offer training sessions and resources to educate your staff on best practices and how to recognize and respond to potential threats.
Peace of Mind with CyberSteward™
At CyberSteward™, we understand the stress and uncertainty that come with cyber incidents. Our approach is not only to resolve immediate threats but also to provide you with peace of mind. We are dedicated to minimizing business interruption and helping you navigate the complexities of cybersecurity with confidence.
About CyberSteward
Guiding CyberSteward™ with Unrivalled Expertise
Stewardship at CyberSteward™
CyberSteward™ is guided by the unmatched expertise of Jason S.T. Kotler, Founder & CEO. With a remarkable track record in managing over 1,000 cyber-extortion incidents, Jason brings an unparalleled depth of knowledge in the incident attack chain, adversarial mindset, and effective investigations, cyber dispute resolution, negotiation and settlement strategies.
Under Jason’s leadership, CyberSteward™ has become a beacon of success in helping victim organizations recover from some of the largest global cyber-attacks. He has built an elite Emergency Incident Response (ER) Team that excels in conducting complex threat intelligence operations and engaging with cyber threat actors. This ER Team has delivered an unsurpassed success rate in resolving mission-critical, time-sensitive, and complex cyber incidents and targeted extortions. They have assisted a diverse range of clients, from Not-for-Profits and SMEs to large multinationals and public companies with revenues in the billions, across various sectors, industries, and highly regulated markets.
Why Choose CyberSteward?
Choosing CyberSteward™ for your Cyber Risk Advisory & Consulting, Incident Response & Monitoring, and/or Cyber-Extortion Incident Response needs is not just a decision; it’s a strategic investment in the cybersecurity, preparedness and resilience of your organization.
Here’s why CyberSteward™ stands apart:
Unrivalled Expertise
ER Team has successfully managed over 6,000 cyber-extortion incidents.
Strategic Alternative Cyber Dispute Resolution™ Advisory & Negotiations
Skilled advisors and negotiators with a “deep in the trenches” understanding of cybersecurity, breaches and threat actors and attack chains.
Comprehensive Support
From incident response planning, incident response, to ongoing cyber monitoring, we cover all aspects of cybersecurity – before and after a cybersecurity incident.
Proactive Advisory & Monitoring
Proactive cybersecurity advisory, incident response planning and table-top scenario exercises, plus continuous threat intelligence and dark web monitoring services.
Client-Centric Approach
We truly care about your business and your stakeholders, and we work tirelessly to ensure your cybersecurity, effective recovery, and ultimate peace of mind.
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Contact Us Today
Let CyberSteward™ be your trusted cybersecurity partner. Contact us today to learn more about our services and how we can help you protect and recover your business from cyber threats.
Toronto HQ:
895 Don Mills Road
Two Morneau Shepell Centre, Suite 900
Toronto, Ontario M3C 1W3, Canada
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about CyberSteward’s demonstrated methodology and approach.
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CyberSteward Inc. is a global, market-leading Cybersecurity Advisory firm, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with technical expertise in cybersecurity breaches and cyber-attacks, and specializing in emergency cyber-attack incident first-response, cyber-extortion and ransomware investigations, negotiations, cyber dispute resolutions and settlements, recovery and remediation support, and cyber-intelligence monitoring services.
CyberSteward™ is a Cybersecurity Advisory firm specializing in emergency cyber-attack incident first-response, cyber-extortion and ransomware investigations, negotiations, cyber dispute resolutions and settlements, recovery and remediation support, and cyber-intelligence monitoring services.
Our ER Team is available 24/7 to respond to cyber incidents. We prioritize rapid response to minimize damage and restore operations as quickly as possible.
Ransomware dispute resolution involves communicating with threat actors to negotiate settlement terms regarding a releasing a victim’s data . Our expert recovery team, dispute resolution and negotiators consider all available options and timelines, and aim to secure the best possible recovery outcome for your business.
We engage directly with our victim clients and their legal breach counsel to consider their situation and options in response to an incident, leveraging our extensive advanced threat intelligence experience and understanding of Threat Actor tactics to consider all available recovery options, or as a last resort, endeavor to negotiate settlement terms to secure the release of encrypted and/or stolen data.
Dark web monitoring involves scanning dark web forums, marketplaces, and other hidden online areas for stolen data, potential threats, and other cyber risks that could affect your business.
Our investigative services include cyber incident investigation, vulnerability assessment, breach impact analysis, and forensic analysis to identify the root cause of incidents and prevent future occurrences.
Continuous threat intelligence keeps you informed about emerging threats and potential risks, allowing you to proactively defend against cyber-attacks and stay ahead of cybercriminals.
We work quickly with the client’s incident response team to contain the threat, recover data, and restore operations, minimizing business interruption and ensuring that your business can continue to function effectively.
Forensic analysis involves examining digital evidence to uncover the details of a cyber incident, including how the breach occurred, what data was affected, and who was responsible.
Our data recovery experts use advanced techniques to restore lost or encrypted data, ensuring that you regain access to critical information as quickly as possible.
CyberSteward™ offers unmatched expertise with our ER Team successfully handling over 6,000 cyber-extortion incidents. We provide proactive incident response education and preparation, dark web monitoring, strategic advisory, expert cyber dispute resolutions™ and negotiations, and comprehensive recovery support, without outsourcing, ensuring deep knowledge of the cyber threat landscape and respective criminal actors.
By moving quickly when engaged, providing strategic incident response advisory, pursuing the least cost and recovery options, supporting business and operational recovery modeling, and effectively engaging with threat actors to delay additional malicious activities, and – only as a last resort – negotiating to recover lost and/or stolen data, , we aim to minimize the financial impact of cyber-extortion and/or ransomware attacks on your business.
Vulnerability assessment involves identifying and evaluating security weaknesses in your systems and infrastructure to prevent potential cyber threats.
We provide comprehensive support, including threat intelligence, vulnerability assessments, and continuous monitoring, to help you stay prepared and protected against future cyber threats.
Yes, our experts can assist with ensuring your cybersecurity practices meet industry standards and regulatory requirements, reducing the risk of non-compliance.
Our threat intelligence services involve collecting and analyzing data on emerging cyber threats, providing you with actionable insights to strengthen your security posture.
Breach impact analysis assesses the extent and consequences of a cyber breach, including the data affected, the operational impact, and the potential financial losses.
We adhere to strict confidentiality protocols to protect your sensitive information and ensure that all aspects of our investigations and engagements remain secure.
You can contact us through our website or call our 24/7 hotline for immediate assistance. Our team is ready to provide the support you need to address any cyber incident.
