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The Best Way to Combat Ransomware Attacks in 2021
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There are plenty of advanced software and service platforms to help guard against ransomware. Sharing threat intelligence information with others is just one effective strategy.
Ransomware attacks saw a dramatic upswing in 2020 even as much of the world was distracted by the pandemic, the U.S. presidential elections and other major events. This presents the cybersecurity world with a particularly thorny challenge given that, due to the pandemic, the data firewall quickly extended beyond traditional workplace IT to the newly established work-from-home (WFH) infrastructure.
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What’s more, the risk level for ransomware attacks continues to grow as cybercriminals become more brazen in their demands. If these trends continue, the amount lost to these attacks could start to rival the GDP of some of the world’s leading economies by mid-decade.