A Proposed Methodology to Prevent a Ransomware Attack

Abstract

RANSOMWARE as malware, increasing threat, three techniques-prevent, detect and mitigate, backup, software updates, educating users, network protection, software optimization, antivirus solution, don’t pay ransom, RDP (remote desktop protocol), disabling macros, principle of least privilege, software restriction policies(SRP), Sender Policy Framework (SPF), Domain Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM), administrative rights, network segmentation.