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What CISOs Can Do to Win the Ransomware Game

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Feed Name: Security Ledger

Date Published: 2022-12-12

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jeffrey Wheatman

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An expert insight urging CISOs to adopt a proactive posture against increasingly organized ransomware groups: it reviews common root causes (exposed admin ports, leaked credentials, poor patching), cites industry cost estimates and impacts on reputation, and prescribes a three-step defensive approach—technical prevention (patching, MFA, DMARC), administrative education and stakeholder communication, and tested recovery/backup and business continuity planning.

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