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7. Paying the Ransom

Should You Pay?
Nihad A. Hassan1 
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New York, USA
 

Regardless of all mitigation measures or prevention strategies already described in this book, no organization or individual can be 100 percent immune to ransomware infection. This makes having a solid backup and recovery plan important to counter successful ransomware attacks.

So, the most important question is, what should you do if you do not have the appropriate backup to restore operations after a ransomware infection? Let’s imagine a scenario where ransomware infects the victim’s backup data also. What you can do in such a situation?

In such a horrible situation, you are limited ...

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