Cyber Security Insurance Perspective on Ransomware | Huntress

This interview-based article analyzes the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident and broader ransomware trends, emphasizing that modern ransomware actors target large, high-value organizations, often exfiltrate data and attack backups, and can create wide economic and operational impacts; it stresses that basic cyber hygiene — security awareness training, phishing simulations, MFA, closing RDP, and access audits — can materially reduce risk.