Prevention is the best ransomware protection
Ransomware is a threatening attack scenario for IT security. To protect your information and avoid future ransom payments, you must meet these challenges. They mainly consist in choosing the right security solutions and regular data protection measures against ransomware.
Bad Rabbit, Emotet, Petya, Ryuk, Sodinokibi, WannaCry or NotPetya represent a special form of ransomware that infects computers and networks, that leads to total system failure. In order to regain control of the data, companies and organizations are often prepared to pay the large sums of ransom demanded by the attackers. Mostly because they don’t have ransomware prevention in place.
Cyber criminals gain considerable power over corporate computer systems, because once a computer is infected, ransomware quickly spreads across the entire network. It causes even greater damage, because the unwanted encryption of data means that it is no longer available. Ransomware protection is therefore a central goal when it comes to data security and data protection. In case of a successful ransomware attack and with no respective security measures in place, organizations are confronted with violating GDPR regulations. They have to prepare for high penalities.
A partial aspect is the maintenance of the implemented IT solutions and their updating. Those responsible must maintain an overview of all processes in order to reduce the probability of a ransomware attack. If you take up the challenge and implement comprehensive protective ransomware protection measures, you will benefit from a lower risk of your company's data being encrypted.
