Malicious cyber actors using ransomware threaten to sell or leak your data if you don’t pay the ransom. These breaches, often involving sensitive or personal information, can cause financial loss, erode customer trust, and invite regulatory scrutiny.

Share these essential steps to prevent these attacks from impacting your business…

1. Maintain offline, encrypted backups of data and regularly test your backups. Backup procedures should be conducted on a regular basis. It is important that backups be maintained offline as many ransomware variants attempt to find and delete or encrypt accessible backups.

2. Create, maintain, and exercise a basic cyber incident response plan, resiliency plan, and associated communications plan.

3. Mitigate Internet-facing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to reduce risk of actors exploiting this attack surface.

4. Reduce the risk of phishing emails from reaching end users by enabling strong spam filters and implement a cybersecurity user awareness and training program that includes guidance on how to identify and report suspicious activity or incidents.

5. Practice good cyber hygiene by:

• Ensuring antivirus and anti-malware software and signatures are up to date.
• Implementing application allow listing.
• Ensuring user and privileged accounts are limited through account use policies, user account control, and privileged account management.
• Employing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all services to the extent possible, particularly for webmail, virtual private networks (VPNs), and accounts that access critical systems.

Don’t expose your business to unnecessary cyber security risks… Schedule your planning session now so we can talk about ways to minimize your attack surface.

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