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Is there no end to the threat of ransomware?

By cfheoh | June 20, 2022 - 8:00 am |June 20, 2022 Appliance, Artificial Intelligence, Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cohesity, Data, Data Archiving, Data Availability, Data Management, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Transformation, Disaster Recovery, Druva, Filesystems, HDS, Hitachi Vantara, ILM, iRODS, Racktop Systems, Reliability, Rubrik, SASE, Security, Sophos, Storage Field Day, Tape, Tech Field Day
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I find it blasphemous that with all the rhetoric of data protection and cybersecurity technologies and solutions in the market today, the ransomware threats and damages have grown proportionately larger each year. In a recent report by Kaspersky on Anti-Ransomware Day May 12th, 9 out of 10 of organizations previously attacked by ransomware are willing to pay again if attacked again. A day before my scheduled talk in Surabaya East Java 2 weeks’ back, the chatter through the grapevine was one bank in Indonesia was attacked by ransomware on that day. These news proved how virulent and dangerous the ransomware scourge is and has become.

And the question that everyone wants an answer to is … why are ransomware threats getting bigger and more harmful and there are no solutions to it? 

Digital transformation and its data are very attractive targets

Today, all we hear from the data protection and storage vendors are recovery, restore that data blah, blah, blah and more blah, blah, blahs. The end point EDR (endpoint detection and response) solutions say they can stop it; the cybersecurity experts preach depth in defense; and the network security guys say use perimeter fencing. And the anti-phishing chaps say more awareness and education required. One or all have not worked effectively these few years. Ransomware’s threats and damages are getting worse. Why?

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