How Data Centers Help Embattled Enterprises in the Fight Against Ransomware

The recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware disruption highlights the fact that it’s not likely a question of “if” your organization will become a victim of ransomware, but “when.” Why are enterprises and their IT departments good targets for so-called ransomware specialists? IT holds a company’s most sensitive, lucrative information and can be the most accessible. Targeting those parts of a company where victims’ most sensitive and critical data is stored and the users have elevated permissions might enable the extortion of potentially huge sums of money. Also, conventional ransomware campaigns that target individual PCs often deny access to arbitrary files that…