Ransomware Revealed: A Beginner’s Guide to Protecting and Recovering from Ransomware Attacks

© Nihad A. Hassan 2019

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5. Enterprise Defense Strategies Against Ransomware Attacks

Protection Against Ransomware Attacks on Corporate Environment

Nihad A. Hassan¹ 

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New York, USA

 

Governments and corporation networks are primary targets for cybercriminals; they contain valuable proprietary information such as trade secrets and financial information or hold sensitive information of government institutes such as military and diplomat information. Such networks have large and diverse attack surfaces, creating wide possibilities for attackers to sneak in.

The old-fashioned method of protecting enterprise networks was to deploy firewalls on the network perimeter, thus isolating ...