How to prevent ransomware damage: a 12-step checklist for IT teams and MSPs
No combination of controls guarantees that ransomware actors will never gain access or cause any impact. What the 12 controls below do is reduce the attacker's opportunities, accelerate containment and preserve the ability to restore operations without relying on ransom payment. Think of ransomware resilience as a continuous lifecycle rather than a fixed sequence: govern and identify, harden and prevent, detect and contain, roll back and recover, and improve and patch.
