As the impact and severity of crypto-ransomware threats and attacks have grown over the years, we have published many blogs and articles on how best to defend against these modern day extortionists. We do not believe that our businesses or consumer customers should have to choose between extortion and losing precious, irreplaceable data. We often get asked the leading question: “which endpoint security solution will offer 100% prevention and protection from crypto-ransomware?”



The simple answer is none.



Even the best endpoint security (which we pride ourselves on innovating and striving towards) will only be 100% effective most of the time. At other times the cybercriminals will have found ways to circumvent endpoint security defenses and their attack will likely succeed. Each day many ransomware campaign operators create a new variant which is re-packed making it once again undetected for all of antivirus.

• Use Reputable, Proven, Multi-Vector Endpoint Security
  
• Back-up your data
  
• User Education
  
• Webroot and Ransomware Payloads
  
• Restrict Remote Desktop Access, secure weak usernames and passwords
  
• Patch and Keep Software Up to Date
  
• Disable Execution of Script Files
  
• Disable Macro execution
  
• Prevent Users from running Powershell via GPO