Anticipating the Ransomware Attack

Many highly regarded public and private organizations, theoretically prepared, have not escaped being victims of ransomware attacks. This can become a big problem for companies, since they can be attacked and generate operational interruption or paralysis, loss of productivity and income, damage to the brand, and contractual or regulatory breaches. Every year, records are broken on the number of attacks and economic losses generated by ransomware, with effects that can be truly catastrophic and possibly put the survival of organizations at risk. Ransomware attacks differ from other cybersecurity events where access may be surreptitiously gained to information such as intellectual…