Security News > 2021 > July > 3 Steps to Strengthen Your Ransomware Defenses
Simple tech investments like these, Tebow notes, can be an easy, effective way to end a ransomware attack before it starts.
While using modern solutions to defeat modern threats is critical, upgraded defenses alone are not enough in a world where ransomware is considered an inevitability by experts.
That's because ransomware attackers increasingly are using a "Living off the land" strategy, where they hijack common tools such as RDP and Mimikatz to steal passwords, escalate privileges, and take control of remote desktop tools.
3 - People Aware of Ransomware Avoid It. Combatting ransomware falls down if people aren't involved in protecting the company.
"If we could get users to think just two more seconds before they click on a suspicious email, many ransomware attacks would never get a toehold in our businesses," he noted.
Hear these cybersecurity experts' full recommendations in the recording of their Acronis virtual conference panel, "See Inside a Live Ransomware Attack, Then Learn How to Prevent All of Them.".