"Research Shows Data Security Tools Fail Against Ransomware 60 Percent Of the Time"

Although more than 70 percent of firms have a combination of prevention, detection, and recovery solutions in place, nearly 40 percent of them have experienced ransomware attacks in the past year, according to a report from the data security company Titaniam Inc. Findings show that 60 percent of the time, traditional data security tools such as secure backup and recovery tools, encryption at rest and in transit solutions, tokenization, and data masking fall short of protecting organizations' data against ransomware threats. The research emphasizes that enterprises must be able to encrypt data-in-use to deter malicious actors in their tracks because they cannot afford to rely solely on conventional data security measures to protect themselves from data exfiltration and double extortion ransomware attacks. The issue with traditional data security tools is not that they lack robust security measures but that attackers can circumvent these controls by stealing credentials and gaining privileged access to critical data assets. Therefore, organizations are encouraged to deploy data security solutions with encryption-in-use to defend against the intrusions typical of modern ransomware attacks. This type of encryption can help obscure data so that attackers cannot exfiltrate it with privileged access to enterprise resources. This article continues to discuss key findings from Titaniam's State of Data Exfiltration and Extortion Report. 

VB reports "Research Shows Data Security Tools Fail Against Ransomware 60 Percent Of the Time"