IDC Building Ransomware Resilience

Ransomware has become a popular weapon in the hands of malicious actors who try to harm governments, businesses, and individuals daily. Ransomware is the final stage of a more complex attack. The security breach could have already happened a long time ago. Considering the range and volume of cyberattacks that organizations face daily, a disjointed …

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Ransomware Risks and Recommendations – Infographic

Not to mention the negative financial impacts and reputational damage that ransomware can cause. The overall frequency of ransomware detections might be leveling off, but the sophistication, aggressiveness, and impact of this threat continues relentlessly. Threat actors continue to pound away at organizations with a variety of new and previously seen ransomware strains, often leaving …

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Considerations for Evaluating Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Solutions – Infographic

Endpoint security solutions range from signature-based endpoint protection platform (EPP) or antivirus (AV) solutions to extended detection and response (XDR) platforms that tie multiple security solutions together. Organizations that are evaluating endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions need to ensure that the products they are considering will meet their needs in the following areas. Discover …

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Reduce Ransomware Risk With the Fortinet Security Fabric

Today’s organizations have a broad digital attack surface spanning a diverse set of devices, user locations, networks, and clouds, providing many avenues of entry and exfiltration for cybercriminals. Increasingly, these cybercriminals are doing more than stealing data, often encrypting whole systems and interrupting business operations with ransomware, a threat that’s increased 15x over the past …

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Making Sense of EPP Solutions: Reading the 2022 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluation Results

According to the Fortinet February 2022 Global Threat Landscape Report, industries worldwide experienced a dramatic 15x growth in ransomware volume over the past 18 months, with sustained volume throughout 2021. Furthermore, attacks are harder to stop because of the evolution of increasing capabilities thanks to a very active economy of threat actors with fresh code …

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Cybersecurity and the Big Data Problem: Human Security Operations Alone Struggle to Keep Pace

Many of today’s cyberattacks are broken into multiple stages of activity, each of which on its own is often difficult to discern as malicious rather than benign. Discernment is even more difficult given the volume of legitimate activity within which it naturally occurs given the diversity of work styles, devices, networks, applications, and cloud-delivery locations. …

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