Preparation, Recovery, and Remediation: A Holistic Approach to Ransomware Protection

When your organization gets hit by ransomware, it needs to be prepared with an exercised Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) plan to help it resume operations as quickly as possible. Key steps and solutions must be followed to prepare and respond to cyberattacks against your organization.

These may be as simple as the deployment of antivirus and backup and recovery applications for your end-users or a more complex approach with security operations center (SOC) tools or managed response solutions coupled with network security tools such as DNS and Web filtering, network and endpoint firewalls, VPNs, backup and recovery and others.

The bottom line is if prevention tools fail and your organization is compromised, you need to have a protection plan that gets your company assets and resources back to work quickly and securely.