Speed matters when responding to a ransomware attack. The faster an attack is detected and the threat is contained, whether that’s shutting down VPN access or isolating an endpoint, the greater likelihood your business will minimize the impact of a ransomware attack.

Current trends in ransomware protection are to ensure protections are in place to counter the range of ransomware attacker tradecraft - phishing users for access to their systems and accounts, abusing vulnerabilities in systems to gain access to networks, gaining access to endpoints and moving laterally around a network. And being able to quickly recover from an incident with documented and tested incident response procedures along with a robust and secure data backup strategy.

AI is helping IT and Security teams defend against ransomware attacks by allowing them to triage and prioritize alerts faster, letting them move at the speed ransomware attacks are happening. 

Antivirus is based on known file signatures and often fails against modern, fileless attacks. Huntress Managed EDR looks for the tradecraft of the human attacker—how they move, escalate privileges, and execute commands—after they bypass basic defenses. Our human-led SOC is dedicated to threat hunting for these subtle activities, ensuring a response that generic preventative tools simply cannot deliver. We stop the human attacker before they can deploy the automated ransomware payload.

Our focus is on speed and quality. For example, Huntress Managed SIEM provides broad-visibility across your security controls and IT infrastructure to detect signs of threat actor activity before they can compromise your network. The human-led, AI-assisted SOC ensures verified, actionable alerts are delivered within minutes with the specific context and steps needed to defend against an attack. Unlike solutions that leave you to investigate a flood of alerts, we provide a definitive path to eject the attacker immediately, dramatically reducing the window of opportunity for the ransomware to execute.

Backups are crucial for recovery, but they don't prevent downtime, reputational damage, or the increasing risk of data exfiltration (where attackers steal data before encrypting it). Modern ransomware is a two-step attack: steal data, then encrypt. Huntress helps stop the attacker before they can execute either step, saving you the massive cost, time, and reputational hit of a full recovery process. Prevention is always cheaper than recovery.

Ransomware groups prey on employees because they can provide an expressway into a network. Employees can be phished to install an attackers' tools or steal administrative passwords making it easy to compromise a network.

Definitely. Identities are the new perimeter. Ransomware groups will intercept MFA requests, steal session tokens, and ultimately compromise accounts to get access to your systems and data.