The conventional approach for ransomware focuses on preventing initial access and relying on backup and recovery—but it hasn’t slowed the extortion menace. Unfortunately, prevention is an uphill battle for defenders: attackers only need to succeed once. And, restoring data doesn’t negate downtime or the consequences of a data breach. Defenders need a much broader window to catch and stop ransomware before the damage is done and take necessary actions that can alert your team to the intrusion – command and control communications, data staging and lateral movement.