Ransomware by Allan Liska

Author:Allan Liska
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2016-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

Summary

In this chapter, we covered some of the ways to begin to think about how to protect your end users through education and assessment along with technology. This protection and engagement is not a one-time investment—instead it is a continuous improvement process where new technologies are tested and their efficacy evaluated against existing protections. The educational component should not be overlooked: it is the most important piece of the ransomware protection program.

By educating your end users and creating a culture that encourages good security hygiene and adoption of best practices, you will enable them to be accountable for their actions. This is one of the smallest investments in terms of dollars, but one of the easiest ways to track return on investment.

But it is also important to understand that no amount of user awareness, testing, or education will get your failure rate to zero. You must always have technical controls in place to back up all of the investments you make in training and testing your users. Whether intentional or not, they remain the easiest way for a criminal organization to infiltrate your network; and just like in any defensive posture having savvy soldiers (i.e., users) is only good when they have effective weapons (i.e., technical controls) supporting them.

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