Mars Challenge
Mar 4th, 2016 by Jesper Kråkhede
I have to say that I really hate ransomware. It´s just like the old times when a henchman placed himself outside your store and blocked your customers from coming in but without the satisfaction of beating him with a bat to make him go away.
A client of mine was targeted with a ransomware and had to restore 1 TB of files (mostly Word, Excel and PowerPoint). You could just image the time it took to restore all the files from backup!
Gladly this company have listened to my advice regarding backups and made sure that they were fully functioning but they still lost three days of work. Today I have been tasked with devising a way to protect against this menace. If you got an idea or two, please feel free to drop me a mail and let’s discuss it.