How to avoid getting caught in ransomware's crosshairs
Paying off a bad actor for successfully implementing ransomware into an organization is the enterprise equivalent of rewarding a bad child who vandalized a home with candy -- but unfortunately, many organizations often have no choice but to pay… and pay a lot.
Technology has enabled asymmetric attacks. In other words, one attacker can federate an attack across many organizations. The attacker needs to get the attack right once -- while the defenders (corporations, governments, hospitals, etc.) need to get their defense right every… single… time!
That asymmetry has been amplified through COVID -- before, an organization could rely on their laptop defenses and network defenses. With such a large swath of the world working from home -- and only protected by their endpoint technology -- the scales have tipped even more in the attacker’s favor.