If you have just gotten CryptoWall, CryptoLocker or some other variant, here are a few questions you should be prepared to answer on your road to recovery
1. What date did you get infected?
You might only have a few days to pay the ransom until it goes from $500 to $1000. After 30 days you might not be able to decrypt the files at all.
2. What type of files got infected and what do they mean to your business?
If the files are not worth $500 then don’t pay the ransom. If the files are worth $5 million then you better be very careful and thoughtful about what you do. The decryption process might not even work and if so....
Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied. 
Estimating an average time for patching servers and PCs can be a bit tricky. It can vary from one month to the next, depending upon the number and complexity of the patches released by your software vendors. You must consider all versions of operating systems and have a complete inventory of all your application software to do this job correctly. Our experience has shown that manual patching of systems takes on average of about 1.5 hours each.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.