Data Safety considering Ransomware

DATA SAFETY CONSIDERING RANSOMWARE
Data Safety considering Ransomware
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Executive Summary
The purpose of this the paper is to focus on the on the impact of ransomware on data security.
The impact of ransomware in a computer network is described in a professional way in this
paper. This paper focuses on the reasons which are responsible for the cyber security issues.
The most infected organization or the areas are also mentioned in this paper. The other
objective of this paper is to focus on the risk mitigation strategies of ransomware. The paper
helps in identifying all the data safety measure which can be incorporated to the computer
systems which can help us to protect our data from the cyber security threats such as the
ransomeware.
The recommendation unit of the paper will be focusing on all the measures which are needed
to be taken so that the problem related to the data security and data integrity can be
maintained. The impact of ransomware on the business enterprises and the personal homes
are described in this paper briefly along with that the working principals of the cyber
criminals who spreads ransomeware is also mentioned in this paper. The paper will be
concluding about the impact of ransomware on our society and the need for maintaining the
risk mitigation strategies so that this malware program can be contained to a significant
extent.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary...................................................................................................................1
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Recommendation......................................................................................................................11
Conclusion................................................................................................................................12
Reference..................................................................................................................................14
Appendix..................................................................................................................................16

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Introduction
Ransomware is defined as a type of malware program which is designed and spread
unethically by the cyber criminals. These program takes hold of the access to the operating
system and encrypts the data. The infected users of those operating systems had to pay a
ransom amount to decrypt their data. The cyber criminals sometimes blackmail the users of
those infected systems by partially decrypting the encrypted data (Goldshmid 2018). The
decrypted data was sent the same way it was stolen from those systems.
There are different categories of ransomware which were affecting 74 countries such
as the Wannacry ransomware, lock screen ransomware, encrypting ransomware. Later
different risk mitigation steps were adopted by different organizations so that they can deal
with the issue.
The foremost determination of this paper is to focus on the security of data
considering the cyber security attacks. The cyber security attacks such as the ransomware
attacks is a major source of concern for every business organization which considers data as
one of their assets. The ransomware is one of the most disruptive types of attack and was
infecting millions of peoples all over the world. There was a time when these cyber security
attacks were increasingly hugely (Lynch 2017). The SMA or the small and medium sized
enterprises were most affected by it. More than 74 countries allover world had a direct impact
of the ransomware. The organization where data is an asset and works on smaller budget and
resources had great difficulty in dealing with these kinds of cyber security issues. Data
security and data recovery is an important issue considering the threat coming from
Ransomware.
The security and the safety of the data are very important these days due to the
increasing number of cyber-attacks. The data which are circulated in a business environment,