Staying ahead of ransomware and bad actors -Data is arguably the most important business asset today, and it is also the chief target of ransomware, which, along with other... -
Data is arguably the most important business asset today, and it is also the chief target of ransomware, which, along with other cybercrime activities, is trending upward at an alarming rate. Faced with significant emerging challenges and increasingly advanced threat vectors, data protection has never been more important, but by the same token, digital transformation must be prioritised, and business agility needs to be preserved at all costs.
However, these issues are compounded by constrained resources and a growing skills gap within digital transformation as a whole, and particularly in the cybersecurity space. Data is increasingly spread across every application and device, both on premise and in the cloud, and this multigenerational data sprawl is challenging to manage and safeguard, especially with a hybrid cloud strategy.
These core pillars reduce both cost and complexity for businesses, and backups with immutability and fast recovery play a critical part in safeguarding against ransomware attacks. Often, however, by the time a ransomware attack is discovered, it is already too late – it has infiltrated an organisation’s network, possibly weeks or even months ago, and the damage has already been done.
This can be achieved through the use of ‘indistinguishable decoys’ – threat sensors that mimic real assets and bait bad actors, alerting to their presence and to attacks that are in progress. This in turn enables accurate alerting, which delivers immediate, precise and early visibility into malicious activity, before threats reach important data.
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