© Nihad A. Hassan 2019
N. A. HassanRansomware Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4255-1_9

9. Responding to Ransomware Attacks

Creating a Ransomware Incident Response Plan
Nihad A. Hassan1 
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New York, USA
 

Driven by easier access and greater financial payoff, the number of ransomware attacks is expected to intensify in the future. Criminals are now focusing their efforts on targeting high-profile organizations, government entities, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations, and they will continue these attacks because of the ability to be fully anonymous when receiving ransoms and because the high success rate achieved by targeting large organizations for a bigger payout.

An incident response plan is a set of instructions used ...

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