5 Steps to Keep Your Business Protected from Ransomware by Regil Pane

With ransomware quickly rising to become the 5th most recurring form of malware in the year 2017, several business owners are now more concerned about how they can ensure that their businesses will not be subjected to such things ever again. The estimated cost of malware attacks in 2017 alone summed up to $5 billion, according to Cybersecurity Ventures.

The saddest part of this malware spreading trend is that several business owners were not able to retrieve their personal data, documents and anything else in their computer, at all. This, of course, led the business owner to put the pieces together in order to regain the lost information, but this can never make up for the data that was lost when their computers were attacked.

Fortunately, not all hope is lost since there are several things that can be done in order to ensure that all businesses are protected from ransomware in the long run as well as right now:

1. Acknowledge Your Vulnerability

Several business owners are guilty of making the highly common mistake of assuming that they cannot possibly be the potential target of a malware attack. Little do they know, hackers normally feed only on such people because they are well aware of the fact that a business owner who thinks along these lines is....

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