Dealing With Phishing And Ransomware The Right Way

Phishing and ransomware are crucial concerns for any organization, be it a SME or a multinational. It can rob or disable access to corporate or personal finances, sensitive employee data and many other information of great value to the organization

- Anshuman Singh

Both Ransomware and phishing attacks and their various variants – spearphishing/whaling and CEO Fraud/ Business Email Compromise (BEC) – are creating havoc across the globe and are major concerns today. According to an IEEE survey of CIO’s and CTO’s from the U.S., U.K. and India, online security threats will be the biggest challenge for them in 2017. This is why, both ransomware and phishing are critical problems that every organization must address through a variety of means: user education, security solutions, vulnerability analysis, threat intelligence, good backup processes, and even common sense.

The scale of the problem