To this day, there remains to be no silver bullet or an all-encompassing solution to the ransomware threat. However, in the decade or so that ransomware has evolved from a nuisance to the thriving criminal business that it is today, the security world has since stepped up by developing tactics to counter its continuing surge.
This year, the rise of ransomware has also seen a significant shift from targeting home users to enterprises across different industries. Here are key steps to effectively lead your organization's defense against ransomware
Building a Shield: Preventing Ransomware from entering the system
As with any form of online threat, safeguarding entry points is key. Here is a security checklist for preventing ransomware from infecting the enterprise network:
Stopping the Bleeding: Containing the damage
The entire process between an accidental click on a malicious link or a download of an infected file to the display of the ransom note could happen in minutes. However, this gap is crucial in identifying and containing a ransomware infection and keeping the damage it causes to a minimum. Here are some notes you should include in your security checklist:
Preventing the After-Shock: Recovering from the infection
Far from how it was portrayed in the past, all is not lost when ransomware infects a system. The key is to quickly spot, respond, and recover from the incident to keep damage to a minimum, and to avoid resorting to paying the ransom. Here's a checklist of things you can do after an infection:
The rapid development of ransomware—with updated variants and families introduced almost daily—shows that cybercriminals see this as a lucrative form of attack. A multi-layered approach to security is vital in ensuring that all possible entry points are well-defended from ransomware.
Ransomware solutions:
Trend Micro offers different solutions to protect enterprises, small businesses, and home users to help minimize the risk of getting infected by ransomware:
Enterprises can benefit from a multi-layered, step-by-step approach in order to best mitigate the risks brought by these threats. Email and web gateway solutions such as Trend Micro™ Deep Discovery™ Email Inspector and InterScan™ Web Security prevents ransomware from ever reaching end users. At the endpoint level, Trend Micro Smart Protection Suites deliver several capabilities like behavior monitoring and application control, and vulnerability shielding that minimizes the impact of this threat. Trend Micro Deep Discovery Inspector detects and blocks ransomware on networks, while Trend Micro Deep Security™ stops ransomware from reaching enterprise servers–whether physical, virtual or in the cloud.
For small businesses, Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Advanced offers cloud-based email gateway security through Hosted Email Security. Its endpoint protection also delivers several capabilities such as behavior monitoring and real-time web reputation in order detect and block ransomware.
For home users, Trend Micro Security 10 provides strong protection against ransomware by blocking malicious websites, emails, and files associated with this threat.
Users can likewise take advantage of our free tools such as the Trend Micro Lock Screen Ransomware Tool, which is designed to detect and remove screen-locker ransomware; as well as Trend Micro Crypto-Ransomware File Decryptor Tool, which can decrypt certain variants of crypto-ransomware without paying the ransom or the use of the decryption key.
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