Infographic
Breaking the Ransomware Kill Chain
This infographic explains how ransomware attacks spread across enterprise networks and why preventing lateral movement is essential to minimizing business impact. It outlines the six stages of a ransomware attack—from initial compromise through exfiltration, encryption, ransom demand, and operational impact—and highlights that breaches are inevitable without visibility into east-west network traffic. To disrupt the attack chain, organizations are encouraged to prepare by identifying all applications and assets, prevent ransomware propagation through segmentation policies, detect unauthorized access attempts with continuous monitoring, remediate attacks through containment and quarantine measures, and recover using visualization tools that support phased restoration. The infographic reinfor
