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 For many organizations, the cost to rebuild from scratch after a ransomware incident far outweighs the original ransom demanded. With a limited understanding of the threat landscape and how ransomware operates, paying the ransom seems like the better business decision to return to operations. However, the real damage is often done when the cybercriminal exfiltrates files for release or sale, while leaving backdoors in the network for future criminal activity—and these risks persist whether or not the ransom is paid. 
 
-Ransomware attacks have become one of the biggest security challenges facing businesses today. When successful, ransomware attacks can cripple a business core IT infrastructure, incapacity, and cause destruction that could have a debilitating impact on the physical, economic security or safety of a business. Ransomware attacks are targeted to businesses of all types. This requires that all businesses take preventive measures to ensure protection.
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-Recent trends on the number of attacks are quite alarming. While 2020 was not a good year for ransomware attacks on businesses, 2021 started on a bad trajectory.  On May 7, the Colonial pipeline (Colonial) attack shutdown services such as pipeline transportation of diesel and gasoline, and jet fuel were temporary halted. Colonial shut the critical fuel network supplying the populous eastern states.
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-Historically, cyberattacks were seen as a sophisticated set of actions targeting particular industries, which left the remaining industries believing they were outside the scope of cybercrime, and without context about which cybersecurity threats they should prepare for. Ransomware represents a major shift in this threat landscape, and it's made cyberattacks a very real and omnipresent danger for everyone. Encrypted and lost files and threatening ransom notes have now become the top-of-mind fear for most executive teams.
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 ## What is ransomware
 
 Ransomware is a type of malware that infects a computer and restricts a user's access to the infected system or specific files in order to extort them for money. After the target system has been compromised, it typically locks out most interaction and displays an on-screen alert, typically stating that the system has been locked or that all of their files have been encrypted.  It then demands a substantial ransom be paid before the system is released or files decrypted.