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TO PAY OR NOT TO PAY


Defending your data against ransomware calls for a holistic approach to your cyber security strategy, says Sam Curry at Cybereason.


A SLEW OF HIGH-PROFILE RANSOMWARE ATTACKS IN 2019 IN EUROPE alone, with several municipalities agreeing to pay ransoms, begs the question of when to pay – or not to pay – to have your fi les decrypted. What does paying a ransom mean? It means


that your data will be returned, following the risky assumption that criminals will honor a deal. This does not guarantee that normal operations can resume, but it does mean that the healing process can begin. If you’re a hospital that has patients on the operating table with surgeons unable to continue surgery, recovery is a big deal. What do you do after you have re-established critical operations? Report the incident? If so, to who? Do you engage in rebuilding operations as they were before? Or do you seek to learn from the incident and start a new, painful journey? It also means that the ‘dark side’ gets an infl ux of cash. This is not insignifi cant: it proves the business model of the ransomware writers, and the criminal networks that they are tied into. It enables them to hire more people, make new deals, ramp-up operations. In the private sector, ransomware infections trigger


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a crisis and immediate risk-based decisions. The ultimate goal for defenders has to be the maintenance of resilience and the removal of fragility. The key capabilities should be to identify ransomware early, to know if a breach has occurred or not – you can have one without the other – to limit its spread, to recover data from backups, to resume operation, and to prevent re-infection. If we can reduce the recovery time to zero, we won’t need to pay ransoms; we will be able to ignore them. Sam Curry (pictured below) is CSO at Cybereason.


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