As such, it is important to practice defense-in-depth. Unfortunately, there is no magical silver bullet that can prevent all ransomware attacks. After all, it's better to prevent a ransomware infection from happening in the first place than to have to restore your backups in response to an infection that has already occurred. At the same time, backups should be regarded as the last line of defense - not the first. The advice I always give is that your backups are your most important defense against ransomware.

It also shows, however, that many people are unsure of how to protect themselves against ransomware. What I find interesting about this is that it shows that there is widespread awareness of ransomware, and that IT pros and laypersons alike find it to be a credible threat. At the same time, I often have friends and family (who are not involved in IT) ask me how they can protect themselves against that same enemy.

One of the things I've always found interesting about working in tech is that, sometimes, enterprise IT and home users really aren't all that different from one another.įor example, I regularly have IT pros ask me how they can best protect their organizations against ransomware.

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