You Won’t Outsmart Hackers

Ransomware has gotten tricky and devilish. It now can embed itself in backups and hide in immutable and air-gapped storage.

“Ransomware doesn’t just encrypt your data, it steals it too,” Staimer said.

Organizations will not outrun the hackers, many of whom are part of organized crime syndicates with lots of money and reach. So, instead of thinking about how to outsmart attackers, make accessing the organization’s data difficult. This calls for a multilayered defense, Staimer and Renneker told Interop Digital attendees. Think about resiliency and overall system design throughout the ecosystem and its many intricate pieces — cloud, mobility, network, apps, sensors and so on.

“This is a problem that is certainly here to stay,” Renneker said.