{"id":4533,"date":"2021-04-20T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:28:11","slug":"why-ransomware-remains-the-top-priority-endpoint-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/why-ransomware-remains-the-top-priority-endpoint-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ransomware Remains the Top Priority Endpoint Security Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1178\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/files\/2018\/03\/Dark-web-mod.jpg\" alt=\"Why Ransomware Remains the Top Priority Endpoint Security Threat \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/files\/2018\/03\/Dark-web-mod.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/files\/2018\/03\/Dark-web-mod-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/files\/2018\/03\/Dark-web-mod-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/files\/2018\/03\/Dark-web-mod-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/files\/2018\/03\/Dark-web-mod-162x81.jpg 162w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/files\/2018\/03\/Dark-web-mod-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why does ransomware remain the top priority endpoint security threat? Will other forms of attack ever replace it as the most dangerous family of malware? What can your enterprise do to protect itself against ransomware?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frequently, cybersecurity experts and researchers find evidence suggesting ransomware decreasing overall as hackers narrow their targets; their research suggests that even though ransomware attacks become more devastating to those affected even as the number of outright victims declines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet at the same time, ransomware continues to haunt the cybersecurity and business worlds. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chainalysis.com\/reports\/2021-crypto-crime-report-intro-ransomware-scams-darknet-markets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chainalysis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> found that crypto payments associated with ransomware grew at least 311 percent in 2020. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenable.com\/blog\/tldr-the-tenable-research-2020-threat-landscape-retrospective\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tenable<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> discovered that 46 percent of healthcare data breaches start with ransomware. Worse, 35 percent of all breaches link to ransomware attacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, a 2020 study by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/purplesec.us\/resources\/cyber-security-statistics\/ransomware\/#:~:text=Ransomware%20costs%20are%20forecast%20to%20reach%20a%20record%20%2420%20Billion%20by%202021.&amp;text=The%20average%20cost%20of%20ransom%20per%20incident%20in%202020.&amp;text=The%20average%20cost%20of%20a%20ransomware%20attack%20on%20businesses%20in%202019.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PurpleSec<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> discovered evidence suggesting the number of ransomware attacks rose by 350 percent since 2018. Additionally, the average ransom payment increased by more than 100 percent and downtime by 200 percent. 20 percent of ransomware victims are small to mid-sized businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ransomware isn\u2019t giving up its crown as a top priority threat in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/free-endpoint-protection-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">endpoint security<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In fact, ransomware might be the most critical non-identity-based threat facing your IT environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s why.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><div class=\"widget\"><div class=\"aside-card\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><a class=\"iam-inject\" href=\"https:\/\/suggestionengine.solutionsreview.com\/buyer\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1682\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/identity-management\/files\/2021\/02\/Identity_Suggestion_Engine_Horiz_800.gif\" alt=\"IAM Solution Suggestion Engine\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Why Ransomware Remains the Top Priority Endpoint Security Threat\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Other Threats Lack Staying Power<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a few moments, it looked like cryptocurrency mining malware (cryptojacking malware) might take the top spot of malware threats. They appear to be diametrically opposed to ransomware on its face: ransomware is obvious whereas cryptojacking operates in the background, ransomware is a one-time payment while cryptojacking could provide a theoretically perpetual source of income.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then all of sudden, cryptojacking declined to something like irrelevance. What happened?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, the cryptocurrency market happened; it proved far more volatile than anyone expected. Making a reliable source of income through just it alone became nearly impossible. So ransomware, which is a guaranteed payment, retook its throne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Malware comes in many forms, but ransomware offers reliability. Hackers are criminals, but they need to pay the bills like everyone else.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Myriad Manners of Damage<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the reasons for the significance of ransomware stems from the ways ransomware can damage an IT environment and an enterprise. First, ransomware by its nature inflicts downtime. After all, it holds data, file, or entire networks hostage for money; hackers might even threaten to erase the data if their demands aren\u2019t met.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Any amount of downtime costs money, It can prevent the fulfillment of orders or purchases, workflows, and communications. It can delay your business from conducting even minute operations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, you need to consider the big picture. How does this amount of downtime, especially preventable downtime, look to potential clients and customers? How does it look to current clients and customers, who might worry about the security of their data in the aftermath of a cyber-attack?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reputational damage resulting from ransomware is hard to quantify. However, it is a pertinent and very real danger to your business, especially to small-to-medium sized businesses which might not have a financial cushion to fall back on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of course, this doesn\u2019t even account for the actual ransomware itself, which might be in the hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, hackers do not <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">have <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to abide by whatever agreement they reach with their victims. These are career criminals, and there really isn\u2019t honor among thieves. They could easily take the ransom payment and then sell the data to the Dark Web. Alternatively, they could simply demand <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">another<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> payment on top of the first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This leads us naturally to another reason ransomware remains a top priority endpoint security threat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>There Are Few Ways to Deal with Ransomware Aftermath<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s a reason enterprises often admit to suffering cyber-attacks but are more reticent to admit to a ransomware attack. Without the right protections and backup\/disaster recovery software in place, businesses have few ways to remove ransomware other than just paying the ransom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The FBI and cybersecurity experts alike both state that paying the ransom is a bad move; paying criminals only encourages more attacks in the long term. That places organizations between a rock and a hard place; either they labor to regain control of their networks and deal with prolonged downtimes or pay the ransom and contribute to what amounts to a crime wave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more on how to prevent ransomware and deal with it as a top priority endpoint security threat, check out the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/endpoint-security\/free-endpoint-protection-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Endpoint Security Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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