What is Ransomware?

It’s a type of malicious software that denies users access to their data unless a ransom is paid.

Most Common Variants: Cryptolocker, CrySis, WannaCry, Bad Rabbit, ExPetr

850,970,000

The total number of ransomware infections detected in 2018. Ransomware attacks are increasing more than 300% year over year.

84%

IDC survey participants experienced a malicious attack in the past 12 months (that they know about)

89%

Ransomware attacks that were successful

93%

Successful attacks resulting in data corruption or loss

[mt_icon type=”users” color=”ffffff”]Who’s Affected?

90% of all financial institutions have experienced ransomware in the past year.

90% of all healthcare organizations saw an increase in ransomware infection rates from 2017 to 2018

The 5 Industries Most Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks

  • Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

  • Healthcare

  • Government Agencies

  • Energy Industry

  • Higher Education

[mt_icon type=”cc-nc” color=”ffffff”]Financial Impact

The Ransom

$11.5

billion

The cost of ransomware damages were $6B in 2017 and are predicted to hit $11.5B by 2019.

$1,200

per machine

The cost of ransom paid out per infected machine by 70% of those affected

Downtime

$8,851

per hour

The average internal cost of downtime per hour for a U.S. business per infected machine

Multi-layered Defense Strategy

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Virtual Sprout DRaaS

Real-time replication powered by Zerto to a secure Virtual Sprout data center with 1000+ checkpoints. Instantly recover applications, virtual machines, or files from a Ransomware attack with seconds of granularity.
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Sophos End-Point Protection

Advanced Deep Learning Powered End-Point Protection for end users and servers that mitigates ransomware, malware, virus, and other malicious activity.  Synchronized Security with Sophos XG Firewall perimeter protection.
SOPHOS XG FIREWALLS

Sophos XG Firewalls

Class Leading Perimeter Protection for Corporate Networks with Synchronized Security integrated with Sophos End-Point Protection to block ransomware at the network edge and dynamically block compromised end-points from spreading infections.

Virtual Sprout IaaS

Enterprise Grade Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enables workloads to instantly recovery from Ransomware by recovering to a automatic snapshot taken multiple times daily.
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