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Incident Response Planning Guide
What's the best way to stop a cyberattack from turning into a full brech? Prepare in advance. Often, after an organization experiences a breach, they'll realize they could have avoided a lot of cost, pain, and discruption if they had an incident response plan in place.
This incident response guide will help you to:
- Define the framework for your cybersecurity incident response plan
- Learn the 10 main steps your plan should include
- Understand the role managed detection and response (MDR) services play in supporting your plan
Endpoint Protection Best Practices to Block Ransomware
Over 50% of organizations were hit by ransomware in the last year. Is your endpoint protection solution optimally configured to protect against these devastating attacks?
Read this guide to:
- Learn how ransomware attacks work
- Discover the seven endpoint-protection best practices all organizations should deploy
- Get top security tips to help keep ransomware at bay
Firewall Best Practices to Block Ransomware
Modern firewalls are purpose-built to defend against ransomware - but to do so, they need to be given the opportunity to do their job. As ransomware attacks become more targeted, tailored, and stealthy, capable of causing havoc to organizations and their networks, applying best practices to get the most out of your firewall is pivotal.
Minimize Your Exposure to Ransomware
Make it as hard as possible for ransomware to impact your network with best practices for your firewall, including:
- Threat protection capable of disruptin the entire attack chain
- Strong security practices to close gaps
- Ongoing staff education to prevent human error
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RANSOMWARE
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Intercept X - The World's Best Endpoint Protection
Sophos Intercept X stops the widest range of attacks with a unique combination of deep learning malware detection, exploit prevention, anti-ransomware, and more.
Highlights:
- The #1 rated malwaredetection engine, driven by deep learning
- Exploit prevention stops the techniques attackers use to control vulnerable software
- Active adversary mitigation prevents persistence on machine
What should you do?
Experiencing an active cyberattack?
If your hospital or healthcare provider is currently under attack, Sophos Rapid Response can help immediately, whether you’re a Sophos customer or not.
Delivered by an expert team of incident responders, Sophos Rapid Response provides lightning-fast assistance, identifying and neutralizing active threats against organizations. Onboarding starts within hours, and most customers are triaged within 48 hours. Rapid Response is an industry-first, fixed-fee remote incident response service that identifies and neutralizes active cybersecurity attacks throughout its entire 45-day term of engagement.
Advice for existing Intercept X customers
If you’re an existing Sophos Intercept X customer, ensure that Intercept X is deployed and up to date on every endpoint you’d like to protect – including servers. And while Intercept X is designed to stop targeted ransomware and other advanced attacks, pay close attention to all Sophos Central alerts that surface, and be on the lookout for persistent adversaries who will continue to try and breach your organization. Intercept X Advanced with EDR customers should leverage its powerful threat hunting and investigation capabilities that allow you to ask detailed questions so you can hunt for active adversaries and respond to advanced threats across your entire estate.
Get help from human experts
These days ransomware can be the end of a very long attack cycle where attackers may have already been on systems searching for valuable data to steal. Security tools work best in combination with human expertise - leveraging your security analysts to hunt for suspicious indicators and prevent a potential issue. Not all organizations have these skilled resources, so if you need additional assistance from human experts, we’re here to help with our Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) service. Sophos MTR provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and response capabilities delivered by an expert team as a fully-managed service. Going beyond simply notifying you of attacks or suspicious behaviors, the Sophos MTR team takes targeted actions on your behalf to neutralize even the most sophisticated and complex threats, including Ryuk and other ransomware families.