Security News > 2022 > May > The Myths of Ransomware Attacks and How To Mitigate Risk

This is especially critical for mitigating against rising ransomware attacks - a threat that 57% of security leaders expect to be compromised by within the next year.

To help you stay ahead, Lookout Chief Strategy Officer, Aaron Cockerill met with Microsoft Chief Security Advisor, Sarah Armstrong-Smith to discuss how remote work and the cloud have made it more difficult to spot a ransomware attack, as well as how deploying behavioral-anomaly-based detection can help mitigate ransomware risk.

Sarah Armstrong-Smith: It's quite interesting to think about how ransomware has evolved.

So although we talk about cyber attacks becoming sophisticated, that initial point of entry really isn't what sets the ransomware operators apart, it's what happens next.

Aaron: Why is ransomware still affecting companies so badly? It seems like we've been talking about methods attackers use to deliver these attacks, such as phishing and business email compromise, as well as preventing data exfiltration and patching servers forever? Why is ransomware still such a big problem? And what can we do to prevent it?

Aaron: There's an interesting article written by Gartner on how to detect and prevent ransomware.

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