Ransomware Mitigation

The amount of successful ransomware attacks have continued to rise and the number of viable targets have also increased. The preponderance of IoT devices as well as legacy Operational Technology systems have created a target rich environment with the potential of providing even greater access into environments with the goal of launching large scale malicious encryption attacks against data. Organizations must expand their mitigation strategies to challenge every step of ransomware execution, focusing specifically on the usage of encryption.  Having the ability to detect and prevent run-time execution of malicious cryptographic actions presents a more proactive approach to mitigating the effects of ransomware attacks. By removing the ability to execute the malicious encryption action the pay-load or the most damaging part of the ransomware attack is sufficiently mitigated.