TECHNOLOGY
“RANSOMWARE ATTACKS HAVE GROWN IN SUCH SIGNIFICANCE THAT THE QUESTION IS NO LONGER IF AN ORGANISATION WILL BE TARGETED , BUT WHEN ”
MICHAEL SMITH CTO , NEUSTAR SECURITY SERVICES backup systems are made . Once these basics are in place , enterprises should also implement reliable distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) network protection , along with phishing prevention .”
Vmware ’ s Kellerman concludes by adding : “ In our research , 81 % of businesses now have an active threat hunting programme to prepare for breaches not yet uncovered . Despite this , there ’ s more to be done . Organisations must prioritise investment in securing cloud workloads at every point in the security lifecycle to shield against future ransomware attacks .”
TOM KELLERMANN , HEAD OF CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY AT VMWARE
“ Our 2021 Global Security Insights Report found that attackers aren ’ t stopping once they ’ ve held a firm to ransom . Nearly 40 % of surveyed security leaders agreed that double-extortion ransomware was the most observed new ransomware attack technique . Bad actors are now returning to the scene of the crime to exfiltrate sensitive information and use it for blackmail or selling information on the dark web . With additional extortion methods available , we could even expect triple and quadruple extortion attacks to increase .”
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