Chances are you know someone in healthcare whose organization has suffered a ransomware attack – if you are not careful, you could be next. If you haven’t been hit by ransomware personally, you’re either very lucky, or you’ve taken some proactive steps to protect your computers and files. If you do get infected with ransomware, unless you’ve got back-ups, or the crooks made some kind of cryptographic mistake, you’re left with either paying or losing your locked up files forever.

1. ONLY
YOUCAN PREVENT
RANSOMWARE!
CHECKLIST FOR PREVENTING RANSOMWARE
STAY UPDATED
This seems pretty simple, but ensuring internet browsers, computer operating
systems and applications are on their most current release, and all security
patches have been applied takes a lot of work. The time and effort are worth
it if you can prevent ransomware attacks!
STRONG PASSWORD POLICY
Set standards for passwords that are complex. This should include length
requirements, special characters, capital and lowercase letters, and numbers.
Encourage your employees to use strong, hard-to-guess combinations. Do not
allow them to use any personal information.
TRAINING
You need to thoroughly train your employees not open links or attachments that
seem suspicious or come from unfamiliar or unexpected sources. This is the
most common way that a hacker places ransomware in your network.
BACKUP
It is extremely important to fully back up critical and important data on
a set and routine basis. This would allow you to recover from an attack as
quickly as possible or not be held hostage to the ransomware at all.
STAY VIGILANT
Educate yourself and your workforce on what the current trends are in
cyber-attacks, what to look for and recognize them, and report any
suspicious activity to your designated Security Official.
RANSOMWARE
DANGER
TODAY!
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