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Defensive Security (Blue Team) / Response and recovery

Lesson 28 of 32

Ransomware response

Ransomware defence is mostly preparation: offline backups, patching, MFA and segmentation. If it hits, isolate, report to authorities, and restore from clean backups.

Key points

  • Offline, tested backups
  • Isolate fast
  • Paying doesn't guarantee recovery
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Quiz · +10 XP

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