Wanna cry ransom ware: Evaluating risk & implementing security measures

Abstract

Incidents of wannacry has been escalated over 150 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, Taiwan, France, and Japan. The software can run in as many as 27 different languages, it is important to understand to what extent cyber attacks can be predicted. There are many related and ongoing research available on cyber security threat, but wannacry ransomware attack has become one of the main security concern now a days. This paper shall evaluate the securitymeasures to secure victim's pc from wannacry ransomware attack and analyze the risk from this threat.