Recover from Ransomware

Stand Up to Ransomware with a Backup

Imagine you are an IT administrator at a small company of 30 people or so. You juggle hardware, software, the network – and even phone systems and the occasional electrical failure or power outage on any given day. So, when your CEO calls you and says, “I cannot open my sales forecast file,” you rush into action. You check your CEO’s PC and find that the file is somehow corrupted. Then you notice a small red icon at the bottom corner of the desktop with a prompt reading: “Your files have been encrypted. Pay $500 for a decryption key within 10 days or your data will be deleted — click here for payment instructions.”

After the initial shock, you realize that you have been infected by Ransomware – a type of malware that blocks access to files or your systems until the ransom is paid. There are many types of ransomware, including Reveton, Cryptolocker, Winlocker, and Cryptowall, and for many the antidote may not be available yet. According to McAfee Labs Threats Report (February 2015), each quarter the number of ransomware types grows on average of 155%.
What Would You Do?
Think about what you would do if ransomware hits your company. Would you pay? Unless you can find an antidote out there – you may have no way to restore your data. Remember, even if you did pay, there is no guarantee that the attacker would decrypt your data and not just disappear.

However, what may come as a surprise to you is that the universal solution against ransomware has existed for years. In fact, it has existed even longer than ransomware itself:

It's called Backup!
Don't just backup the data back up the entire machine!
Test you backup on a regular basis
Finding out that it is not working when you most need it is not the time to find out it has not been working
Redundancy is also key in having a good disaster recovery in place

Acronis is a great inexpensive way to backup a machine 

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