Hospitals quickly need a powerful backup solution. In my opinion it is the best and perhaps only defense against ransomware. Some trojans stay hidden for weeks

Hospitals quickly need a powerful backup solution. In my opinion it is the best and perhaps only defense against ransomware. Some trojans stay hidden for weeks, but most go to work immediately. The important thing is not to pay the ransom. The industry would die off like it should. It would be interesting how they could distribute the malware between hospitals, there must be some channel to facilitate that from the network off affected hospitals. Unlikely they hit all hospitals at once. Maybe common credentials. If so, it would need to be checked. The data is probably extracted at that point, but a way to restore the network would allow hospitals to get back in operation almost immediately. Backup solutions are on the expensive side. My company had multiple ransomware attacks but we could restore the data nearly on the fly because the backup solution did snapshots over the whole infrastructure.