Ransomware continues to evolve as threat actors now implement components and features that make it more difficult for victims to recover their data. Today’s attacks are driven by invasive human activity where attackers gain access to high-privilege accounts and then move laterally to search for, steal and encrypt your most sensitive data.
Detecting attacker activity early is the only proven way to stop ransomware. However, cybersecurity has relied on understanding the known threats, where detection and response methodologies use signatures, anomalies and rules to see and stop attacks. This approach is broken. As enterprises shift to hybrid and multi-cloud environments, embrace digital identities, digital supply chains, and ecosystems — security, risk and compliance leaders are faced with more.
- More attack surface to cover.
- More evasive and sophisticated attackers.
- More tools and more data sets to analyze.
- More signatures, anomalies, rules to maintain.
- More alert noise, triage, false positives.
- More analyst fatigue, burnout, turnover.
Ransomware actor intentions:
- Locate and exploit vulnerabilities
- Gain unguarded access to your business
- Infiltrate and progress laterally inside your systems
- Get unknown access and control of your data
- Steal valuable and critical data
Despite more tools, data, signatures, policies, rules, alerts and people — the core problem remains the same:
“We don’t know where we are compromised – right now.”
