How Vulnerable Is Your Company To External Attacks?
As you know, ransomware attacks are happening more frequently and to a greater number of organizations. The monetary impact of lost business due to ransomware, coupled with the downstream effects of researching and responding to the attack, is becoming staggeringly high.
- Number of institutions attacked by ransomware in 2020
- Ransomware payment by victims
- Average downtime due to ransomware attacks
- YoY increase in ransomware attacks
- The average ransom paid by mid-sized organizations
NIST and CISA Guideline Compliance
NIST and CISA maturity and compliance frameworks outline what companies should do to avoid Ransomware attacks. Despite these frameworks, organizations want to operationalize these guidelines to automate their entire IT footprint.
Qualys Ransomware Offers a Four-Step Approach to Risk Assessment and Remediation
1 – Define Your Assets
Discover and invent all critical assets in the most complex infrastructures, especially in high-risk internet-facing environments.
2 – Identify Your At Risk Assets and Applications
Identify required alerts for entities running unauthorized software, not using antivirus and/or endpoint security tools.
3 – Prioritize Your Vulnerabilities
Leverage the Qualys Vulnerability Management Detection and Response implementation (VMDR) to assess and prioritize vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in your assets.
4 – Make a Patch
Quickly identify any missing patches and use Qualys Zero-Touch patch to automatically deploy necessary patches to fix security vulnerabilities