Layered defences, including the application of secure access solutions, can help fortify your network against ransomware threats.
Data Keeper gives users free access, allowing them to customise their malware. Once it has been generated, Data Keeper shares the profits with its users every time their ransomware successfully claims a victim.
These developments are striking and ransomware gangs are likely to refine their tactics and technology in the years to come. These illicit innovations notwithstanding, what worked in 2016 will work in 2018.
Any strategy to deal with ransomware must extend to every level of your environment, from your endpoints, IoT devices and email gateways right through to your data centres and cloud resources. A layered approach, with secure access, active endpoint security and network visibility, will effectively reduce endpoint security threats and increase fidelity to discover and mitigate malware activity.
If a user has inadvertently disabled their endpoint security, such as their personal firewall, or if their anti-malware protection is out of date, secure access solutions can identify this threat. If that user clicks on a phishing link and infects their company-owned laptop with a case of SamSam, a Network Access Control solution could prevent that infection hitting the company network and infecting more endpoints. And a network monitoring, firewall or web proxy solution could identify command and control communications to known malicious sites controlling the ransomware.
When ransomware hits your network, it is going to try to identify as many systems as it can to exploit vulnerabilities, gain control over system and invoke encryption and data exfiltration as much as possible. A layered approach will allow you to more efficiently isolate infected systems, possibly to its patient zero, quarantining the compromised endpoints and preventing malware before it can materially spread or attack.
Layered defences, including the application of secure access solutions, can help fortify your network against ransomware threats.
Better yet, it will help make an attackers job that much harder. While ransomware authors are always finding ways to work around security solutions, enhancing security mechanisms at different areas of your environment will give a ransomware attack group more obstacles than it can handle. However, security must still support the smooth operation of a network and its constituents, so any layered security solution will have to allow seamless accessibility, protection and resource availability for users.
Layered defences, including the application of secure access solutions, can help fortify your network against ransomware threats, automatically isolating its propagation and killing malicious activity quickly before it can infect the whole network and wreak damage. u
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