Prevent Ransomware Attacks

How to prevent ransomware attacks

Ransomware attacks have become a top cybersecurity concern, with criminals targeting everything from critical infrastructure to hospitals and government agencies, and demanding tens of millions of dollars in ransom. Unfortunately, ransomware is a complex cybersecurity problem with no silver bullet to address this menace. Thankfully the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released guidance on identifying and protecting assets against ransomware. The Cybersecurity Special Publication (SP) 1800-25 lays out the steps to having a comprehensive strategy around protecting assets.

Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies (TCT) data security and access management solutions provide some of the most essential components of the cybersecurity framework proposed by NIST to protect organizations against ransomware. Thales’ industry-leading portfolio provides organizations the ability to:

Thales TCT Solutions for Ransomware Prevention

• Protect data-at-rest from ransomware attacks with the CipherTrust Data Security Platform

  The CipherTrust Platform provides comprehensive data security capabilities, including file-level encryption with access controls, application-layer encryption, database encryption, masking, vaultless tokenization with policy-based dynamic data masking and vaulted tokenization to support a wide range of data protection use cases.

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  White Paper: Prevent Ransomware Attacks from Disrupting Your Agency with the CipherTrust Platform

  This white paper helps you understand the anatomy of ransomware attacks and explores the solutions available in the market today to defend against such attacks. It illustrates how security policies in CipherTrust Transparent Encryption from Thales enable you to prevent rogue processes and unauthorized users from encrypting your most sensitive data and thereby protects you from ransomware attacks. Download

• Implement strong authentication, access and identity management

  Strong authentication, access and identity management are a key part of the guidance to prevent ransomware from the NIST and other organizations. Thales offers suite of identity and access management solutions include centralized cloud-based access management, Smart SSO, multi-factor authentication and much more to help control access, protect data, and prevent attacks.

  Secure User Access

  White Paper: How Ransomware attacks leverage unprotected RDPs and what you can do about it

  RDP ports are left open on the internet and accessible with simple passwords, they can cause serious security
  problems. For organizations that require RDP, the following best practices focus on hardening the access point and are useful for securing RDP against brute force attacks.  Download

• Identify and classify vulnerable sensitive data across hybrid IT

  CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification, part of the CipherTrust Data Security Platform locates regulated sensitive data, both structured and unstructured, across the cloud, big data, and traditional data stores.

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• Protect data in transit with Thales Network Encryptors

  Thales Network Encryptors offer the ideal certified and proven solution for data-in-motion security, including time-sensitive voice and video streams, for enterprise, and government organizations.

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