Kurt Shintaku's Blog

As a part of our journey to reduce our ransomware risk internally here at Microsoft, we’ve identified five principles that we believe every enterprise should follow to make themselves more secure from these attacks. We call these our Foundational Five of Ransomware.

While we use Microsoft products to secure our systems, infrastructure, data, and identities, the Foundational Five are product agnostic and can be scaled to meet the needs and requirements of organizations of any size. This is especially important for smaller organizations, with 70 percent of encounters with human-operated ransomware happening in organizations with fewer than 500 employees, according to the Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023.

Read the full report here:

• Lessons learned at Microsoft: Five steps you can take to reduce your ransomware risk
  https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/lessons-learned-at-microsoft-five-steps-you-can-take-to-reduce-your-ransomware-risk/