Dark Reading: Here's How To Protect Against A Ransomware Attack

Recovering data encrypted by a ransomware attack is next to impossible, so prevention offers the better approach.

2/4/2016
By Jai Vijayan

Ransomware attacks -- where online extortionists encrypt data on a victim's computer and then demand a fee for unlocking it -- started off mainly as a consumer problem but increasingly is hitting businesses and government entities as well.

The trend has significantly heightened the need for organizations to have measures in place for blocking the threat and for mitigating damage to the extent possible. Most security experts agree that it is almost impossible to recover data that might have been encrypted in a ransomware attack without access to the decryption keys, or to a backup copy of the affected data.

So the focus has to be on prevention.

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