Ransomware Attacks and How to Prevent them from Disrupting Your Business
Ransomware Attacks and How to Prevent them from Disrupting Your Business
9 PagesRansomware is escalating in scale and sophistication, with attackers using phishing, zero day exploits and double extortion to steal and encrypt data. Baseline defenses like training, patching and backups cannot stop modern variants. The paper shows how CipherTrust Transparent Encryption blocks attacks by enforcing file level encryption, strict access controls, trusted application lists and behavior based ransomware detection. These controls prevent rogue binaries, privilege escalation and unauthorized encryption while central monitoring and key management strengthen resilience before, during and after an attack.
