Combating Ransomware
Ransomware and multifaceted extortion have become top cyber security threats for organizations of all shapes and sizes.
Defend Against the Attackers’ Top Choice for Multifaceted Extortion
Ransomware attackers have intensified their attack campaigns by threatening critical infrastructure shutdowns, risking public health and safety, diverting vital public resources, disrupting educational institutions, and impacting data privacy.
Ransomware Attack Lifecycle
How Mandiant Helps Address This Challenge:
Ideally, every organization should strive to catch a ransomware attack at its earliest stages to prevent deployment. Early detection of the intrusion allows an organization to accelerate their response, minimize its impact and swiftly resume business operations.
Mandiant has the unique ability to find the intrusions that precede ransomware deployment quickly and at scale.
Prepare
Ready your cyber defenses against ransomware and multifaceted extortion campaigns. Mandiant can help you prepare your specific environment with the Mandiant Advantage platform and services, including threat intelligence, controls validation and security program assessments.
The platform offers access to timely, relevant and easy to consume threat insights that accelerate security decision making to mitigate risk. You’ll gain visibility, evidence and confidence in your cyber readiness against ransomware through automated testing programs and hands-on operational exercises that give you real data on how your security controls are performing. Our frontline experts can better prepare you and your team to mitigate threats, reduce business risk and lessen the impact of ransomware.
Prevent
Identify the activity that precedes ransomware deployment and activate mitigation strategies to avoid a major ransomware and multifaceted extortion incident.
With Mandiant Advantage, response readiness services and on-demand access to Mandiant cyber defense experts, security teams can identify active and past compromises quickly and stop attackers before they cause damage to their organization. Security teams get an early knowledge advantage through automated modules that identify critical indicators of compromise (IOCs). Managed detection and response services provide specialized expertise, such as integration of attacker research to detect malicious activity faster and the effective prioritization of mitigation efforts.
Respond
Reduce the impact of ransomware and multifaceted extortion attacks with swift and decisive action.
Mandiant provides access to incident response experts so you can rapidly and effectively respond to ransomware and multifaceted extortion attacks. These specialists complete in-depth attack analysis, perform crisis management across the full attack lifecycle and help you recover your business operations after a breach.
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Ransomware Protection and Containment Strategies
In our latest report, we discuss steps organizations can proactively take to harden their environment to prevent the downstream impact of a ransomware event.
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This paper provides recommendations to protect Linux endpoints from adversarial abuse.
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M-Trends
M-Trends is an annual publication from FireEye and Mandiant with timely data and insights based on frontline investigations of high-impact cyber attacks and remediations. Learn more about the latest ransomware trends and remediation techniques and more.
Multifaceted Extortion: The Evolution of Ransomware
Our latest e-book charters the evolution of ransomware to multifaceted extortion, highlighting critical differences between the two from tactics to consequences.
Infographic: See the Four-Year Growth of Multifaceted Extortion Attacks