RE: 7 Methods to Fight Back Against Ransomware

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7 Methods to Fight Back Against Ransomware

in security •  8 years ago 

I think sandbox deployment is very secure. You can observe the effect of running a program before running on your device. However, it will be time-consuming if you run every programs in sandbox. Everything needs a trade-off.

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Modern security software can handle a lot of this work in the background. It usually cost money for the most advanced version and then there is a system-performance overhead which can slow things down. It does reduce the risks, but does not eliminate it. Threats are evolving as well. Some are coding delays to trick sandboxes, others are trying to detect when they are put into such confined spaces so they can remain dormant, while the most advanced attackers are actually finding ways of breaking out of those sandboxes! Personally, I think sandboxes can be one of the best controls, but the battle continues to wage between security and threats.