Fortunately, you can prevent a ransomware from ever entering your system by implementing common cyber security best practices. By understanding the most common attack vectors used by cybercriminals, you can effectively strengthen your security posture and reduce the risk of a breach.
Human error continues to be the biggest threat to security of an organization. Phishing, which involves disguising oneself in order to obtain fraudulent information or deliver malicious files, remains the most common technique used by cybercriminals to initiate a ransomware attack. The good news is, with some specific network controls in place, as well as cyber security training for employees and multi-factor authentication practices, most ransomware attacks can be prevented.
To be clear, ransomware resilience goes beyond prevention. For an organization to be resilient to ransomware, it must also be ready to respond to and recover from a ransomware attack if one should ever succeed. This crucial pre-planning exercise will pay dividends by reducing recovery times, eliminating the temptation to pay ransoms, improving the likelihood of ransomware data recovery, and minimizing the potential damage caused by the attack.