It’s time to stop ransomware in its tracks

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Only 16% of organizations have reported no security incident types related to phishing and ransomware in the past 12 months. That’s according to a survey done by Osterman Research. For most of us, though, phishing, particularly ransomware, has become an all-encompassing worry. The story of the healthcare system in Ireland, which was hit with a sophisticated ransomware attack that affected over 2,000 patient-facing IT systems and 80,000 devices, is instructive. Thousands of appointments, cancer treatments … More

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