Protecting Yourself from Ransomware

Ransomware is essentially extortion and takes two forms: Denying you access to your own data, or threatening to share your data that the attackers have exfiltrated. In this video, Jeff "the security guy" explains 4 actions you should take to defend yourself against ransomware attacks. There's no perfect defense against ransomware, but if you do these 4 things, you will tip the scales in your favor and away from the bad guys.

Then, if you want more information on how to protect your company from hackers holding your data for ransom, check out some of the links above.

[Jeff-S-Grimes]

Jeff has taught me a lot. He is so concise and engaging with knowledge sharing. Much appreciated✌

[proaxiom_cyber]

Great breakdown of ransomware defenses!

[AFutureLegend]

How can an employee find out if they made a mistake and am responsible for the ransomware attack???

[velo]

i dont get why windows isnt introducing a blocking mechanism to ransomware. Like do you really wanna change all your files yes/no :)

[BsktImp]

0:47 That you didn't explicitly mention encrypted storage and backups implies that it's a given?

[VV-idki]

Can you please make videos for end to end Incident Response for an actual ransomware threat actor according to their proof of concept