Analysis of Best Practices for the Prevention of Ransomware Attacks

  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
  • The main objective of this project is to study and analyse about the Ransomware malware and its types, attacking vectors, prevention techniques and analysed the system behaviour when infected with Ransomware and implemented basic recovery techniques of infected system. Ransomware is a malware that encrypts the data available in the infected system and demands ransom to gain access to data. The work analysis is focused on different Ransomware models and different existing prevention techniques. Among these, the best prevention techniques is maintaining the backups of data and training the users on social engineering techniques. After implementing the recommended prevention technique, some recommendations are provided to make improvements in the performance and to meet the future need. *Publication date not found.

  • Date created
    2021-10-01
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  • Type of Item
    Report
  • DOI
    https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-1ga4-f887
  • License
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International