The recommendations to strengthen resilience against Ransomware are somewhat similar to the Corona virus.

Ransomware strikes seemingly out of nowhere and may stay latent over a longer period of time and strike at full force, especially if countermeasures are limited and vital systems are hit.

Like the Corona virus, protecting IT has focused on minimizing the attack surface. Anti-Virus software, Firewalls, IPS/IDS, efficient backups and so forth are all part of our mitigating measures.

However, it only takes one small accident or mistakes with the mitigating measures before virus or ransomware strikes, and the organization is hit by a strong - and often rapidly spreading - infection.

We could, however, use our recently gained knowledge as a reference to mitigate, contain and reduce the spread of infection, when things go south.