Ransomware
Don’t let a ransomware attack bring your business to a grinding halt.
Three Reasons Ransomware Attacks Succeed
Security teams continually work to improve their ability to detect and mitigate Ransomware fast, but headline-grabbing attacks occur daily.
The question to ask is, why?
Lack of Visibility
While good products are on the market to detect potential ransomware, they only work if they can see the assets it intends to protect. If a new computer or server comes online that doesn’t get the ransomware protection installed, you end up with unintended exposure. This happens more than anyone would like to think.
Time Delays
While attackers are known to remain in environments for weeks, if not months, before deploying their ransomware attack, once the attack starts, it can spread like wildfire. If the security team does not have near real-time access to critical data, they will always be chasing an active attack, attempting to limit the damage rather than stopping it from happening.
Unreliable Automation
Two aspects of automation make Ransomware so effective. First, the attackers use AI and cutting-edge deployment models to carry out attacks at scale. With Ransomware-as-service, anyone can start a widespread ransomware campaign with little investment. Moreover, due to a lack of automation, many security teams must use manual mitigation and remediation methods, making attack recovery much more challenging.
How to Close Ransomware Blind Spots
A multi-layer security approach gives your team the best chance to detect and mitigate a Ransomware attack quickly.
Endpoint
Protection
Attackers consistently target endpoints, where users interact with a computer regularly, to carry out their attacks. A solid endpoint protection product, such as EPP and/or EDR, is a must.
Email
Protection
Since many attacks will arrive via email, you must have an email product with built-in ransomware filtering.
Network
Protection
99% of all attacks will traverse your network at some point. Network protection products like NDRs are great ways to detect command and control activity typically associated with Ransomware.
Vulnerability Management
While attackers love to have users do their dirty work for them, if they can find an unpatched asset or an application with a known vulnerability in your environment, they are more than happy to exploit it. To that end, you need effective vulnerability management to keep your systems and applications up to date.
Security
Analytics
While the abrasiveness of a ransomware attack is evident once an attacker deploys the ransomware payload, there are opportunities to detect potential signs of an impending attack when actively monitoring and correlating user and entity behaviors and flagging suspicious activities.
Automated
Response
With the previous protection layers in place, you need a way to respond to a detected threat at scale quickly. Using an automated response product like a SOAR can be the difference between a localized ransomware issue and a widespread crippling attack.
How Stellar Cyber Can Help
Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform delivers over 400 integrations out-of-the-box, including integrations to popular endpoint protection, email protection, and vulnerability management products you use. The choice of which of these products to use is up to you.
Stellar Cyber also provides the network protection, security analytics, and automated response capabilities you need to deliver consistent Ransomware protection across your IT and OT environments.
Key Features
Ultra-Flexible Data Sources
Using pre-built integrations, incorporate data from any existing security control, IT, and productivity tool.
Normalize and Enrich Data
Automatically normalize and enrich data with context, enabling comprehensive, scalable data analysis.
Automated Threat Hunting
Create customized threat hunts that can be run ad-hoc or on a set schedule.
Advanced Threat Detection
Identify complex threats using AI threat models and curated threat detection rules.
AI-Driven Security Analytics
Seemingly disparate alerts are combined into incidents providing security analysts with contextualized and prioritized threats to investigate.
Repeatable Incident Response
Take decisive response actions manually or enable Stellar Cyber to automate response fully.
Meet Your Ransomware Challenge with Stellar Cyber
Stop Chasing Alerts
Investigate incidents, not alerts
See significant efficiency gains
Improve Security
Outcomes
Find hidden threats early
Eliminate constant firefighting
Save Time
and Money
Optimize security stack
Improve team productivity