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Protecting against ransomware
Mitigate ransomware for your organization with AWS
What is ransomware?
Ransomware refers to a business model and a wide range of associated technologies that bad actors use to extort money from entities. Whether you’re just getting started or already building on AWS, we have resources dedicated to help you protect your critical systems and sensitive data against ransomware. You can use these resources to prepare your organization against an incident, test and build out a strategy to respond during an event, and recover more quickly from an event. You can also learn more about proactively protecting against ransomware as well as how AWS and the AWS Partner Network can help you reduce the risk of a ransom event.
Ransomware is not specific to the cloud—in fact, AWS can provide increased visibility and control over your security posture against malware. Raising your security posture is the first step to make it more difficult for a ransom event to occur in your environment. Raising your security posture begins with reviewing your security program and controls against best practices from AWS, third party organizations, and your internal policies.
Video: Use AWS to improve your security posture against ransomware
Framework for protecting against ransomware events
Identify and protect
Identifying your systems, critical data, and applications will help you baseline normal user activity as well as the integrity of systems and potential vulnerabilities. By rapidly identifying and patching vulnerabilities, organizations can reduce their exposure to ransomware events by limiting the ways it can get in.
Detect and respond
Threat detection can continuously monitor your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and deliver detailed security findings for visibility and remediation. Early detection of anomalous network activity is a key to mitigating ransomware threats and its impact.
Recover
Organizations that identify critical data up front can back up that data to create an immutable recovery copy. Data can be recovered to a specific point in time and rapidly restored reducing an incident's impact. With AWS services, you can centralize and automate data backups, simplify backup management, and protect your application data across AWS and on-premises environments.
As an AWS Security Competency Partner, Westcon-Comstor's AWS Starter Kits are designed with AWS's best practices and security in mind. Our AWS Starter Kits provide the highest security and performance for you and your customers’ AWS environment.
Visit our stand to understand more about our AWS Starter Kits from participating vendors and how they solve your Ransomware concerns.
All our highly experienced team members can talk you through your requirements, address your challenges and provide solutions to ensure you have a secure, scalable, sustainable and successful cloud business.
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