Stop ransomware attacks in their tracks

Ransomware attacks leverage well-known and established software vulnerabilities, including recent exploits against remote access infrastructure (CVE-2019-19781, CVE-2019-11510), Microsoft Windows bugs (CVE-2017-0143, CVE-2018-8453, CVE-2020-1472) and Active Directory (CVE-2020-1472). It’s critical to gain continuous visibility into all assets and vulnerabilities to understand where you are exposed. Take advantage of 20 trillion threat, vulnerability and asset data points to predict which vulnerabilities will be actively exploited by threat actors so you can focus on what matters most.

Once in the network, ransomware attackers look to exploit AD weaknesses to escalate privileges and move laterally across the organization. Few organizations properly restrict or manage the use of privileged AD accounts, leaving the organization wide open to malware propagation. Find and fix AD weaknesses before attacks happen by reducing privileged AD group membership, enforcing multifactor authentication, and monitoring AD for unusual activity.

Successful ransomware attacks can cripple an organization with increased costs and lost revenue. To reduce the probability of a business impacting event, you need to understand your program effectiveness with identifying and addressing flaws related to ransomware attacks. Take advantage of key metrics to measure and communicate how effective your operational controls are with reducing risk, and use benchmarking data to compare performance internally and externally against industry peers.