The World Is At War With Ransomware

Fight with a grounded framework.

The world is at war with ransomware.

It is a threat that every business with a digital presence must contend with. As with any war, you must have a strategy to win. Still, it can be hard to understand how so many enterprises fall victim to ransomware attacks with all the money spent on cybersecurity over the past decade.

Truth is, you can have an entire arsenal of best-of-breed cybersecurity tools at your disposal and still fall victim to ransomware. Yes, having the right defensive tools is critical, but beating ransomware first requires a well-conceived multi-layer strategy based upon an established framework that is implemented by the proper mindset.

A Grounded Framework

There are several reputable and established frameworks out there that you can freely utilize. At WEI, we like to suggest the NIST Cybersecurity Framework that touches on all the things you need to secure your organization. The NIST framework is written in common language to bridge the technical gap between internal IT and business leadership.

NIST can be used to help educate stake holders from across the organization to understand, manage, and reduce cybersecurity risk.

What is your top IT objective?

Improve Data Security
Improve Operational, Process Efficiency
Improve Customer Experience

NIST Core Functions:

Identify: Assists in developing an organizational understanding to managing cybersecurity risk to systems, people, assets, data, and capabilities.

Protect: Outlines appropriate safeguards to ensure delivery of critical infrastructure services.

Detect: Defines the appropriate activities to identify the occurrence of a cybersecurity event.

Respond: Includes appropriate activities to take action regarding a detected cybersecurity incident.

Recover: Identifies activities to maintain plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a security incident.