How to Identify and Block Ransomware

In the last post, we took an in-depth look at how ransomware changed during 2016, and what we expect to see happen in the coming year.

The post, which was based on a recent webinar, was pretty long and in-depth, so if you'd like some context you might like to go back and read it before continuing or feel free to watch the on-demand webinar.

In this post we’re going to run through the most important part of the webinar: what you can do to secure your organization against ransomware.

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The Ransomware Explosion: Lessons Learned in 2016

In 2016, a year when cybercrime soared to previously undiscovered heights, ransomware was one of the top worries for organizations of all sizes.

And for good reason.

Compared to other malware, ransomware has a very high infection rate, and whether or not organizations opt to pay ransom demands it can cause significant disruption to business processes. Even worse, many co-called “copycat” ransomware families have turned out to be far more destructive than intended, and as a result many files can't be recovered even if payment is made.

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Security Awareness Training: A Recipe for Success

In recent months we’ve written a lot about security awareness and employee defense training. It’s an involved topic, clearly, and if you’ve taken away anything we hope it will be this:

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Why Your Security Awareness Training Sucks (And What to Do About It)

Most security awareness training sucks. There, we said it.

It’s boring, infrequent, and ineffective. And the worse part is… everybody knows it.

But why? How did we get to this point? And who does all this sub-par security awareness training benefit?

To answer these questions we’ll need to examine one of the main drivers: Compliance.

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