How Ransomware Attacks Are Executed
How Ransomware Attacks Are Executed

Recon and Infiltrate
This first phase can include selecting a target, determining how to gain access to the target, and accessing the target.

Maintain and Manipulate
At this phase, threat actors are already inside. The attackers use their initial access to improve their position and move forward with their goals.

Execute and Exfiltrate
In the final phase, the attacker may access a target system via lateral movement, steal information, compromise systems, or target third parties.
Strengthen Ransomware Protection for Multi-Cloud Environments

Are Your Networking and Security Cloud Smart?
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Innovations in Ransomware Protection
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Exposing Emotet’s Cybercriminal Supply Chain
Get our latest threat report exposing tactics and development lifecycles of two new epochs of Emotet attacks and see how you can mount an ironclad defense.

Increased Attacks are Changing the Enterprise’s Security Priorities and Spending
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Defense in Depth Strategy
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Network Detection and Response
Find out how to stay one step ahead of evolving threats by ensuring visibility and control over your network.
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Detecting Malicious Traffic from Threat Groups
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Carbon Black Blocks Ransomware Rapidly and Effectively
Identify Risks
Protect workloads and infrastructure through advanced workload visibility, and vulnerability management. Plus, gain the capabilities to perform audits and remediation with alerts on policy and severity score.
Detect
Manage detection and response using indicator of compromise, which provides a process tree and an events timeline to support threat hunting and root cause analysis.
Recover
Utilize existing built-in disaster recovery tools to quickly resume normal business operations from anywhere. Restore with a clean slate, with no configuration needed for your operating system.
Protect
Stop emerging attacks by protecting from behavior anomaly, providing application rules, and blocking threat actors from taking command and control of your network.
Respond
Provide a software-defined approach to isolate your assets through NSX Policy, integrating Carbon Black Workload with NSX Security.
NSX Security
Identify Risks
Detect malicious behavior through network telemetry and observability, high value asset tagging, and flow visualization that helps you find any deviation from the normal baseline.
Detect
Help your network security and security operations teams prevent ransomware, detect malicious network activity, and stop the lateral movement of threats using NSX Network Detection and Response (NDR).
Protect
Reduce the attack surface through deep-packet inspection and malware prevention, while preventing initial incursions and lateral threat movement.
Respond
With the tight integration of Network Detection and Response within the NSX Distributed Firewall, you’ll gain unified access control, threat forensics workflows, and automated response actions that block malicious traffic or quarantine compromised workloads.
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery
VMware Ransomware Recovery
Protect
Provide non-disruptive disaster recovery capabilities without the need for a secondary disaster recovery site or complex configuration.
Recover
Recover from ransomware attacks by leveraging a guided recovery workflow, an on-demand isolated recovery environment and an embedded behavioral analysis of powered-on VMs. Isolate VMs at restore with push-button VM network isolation level.
Respond
Confidently identify recovery point candidates across a deep history of snapshot copies. Validate these restore points in an on-demand isolated recovery environment with embedded NGAV and Behavioral Analysis of powered-on workloads.