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I like the idea of a payment ban because it will force most companies to look at the systems that should be in place to prevent attacks. So many companies don't

I like the idea of a payment ban because it will force most companies to look at the systems that should be in place to prevent attacks. So many companies don't have working backups, and have not partitioned their systems in ways that prevent an attack (or accident, or corruption) from spreading from system to system. The disappointment is real when you tell the ransomware guy, "We're not paying. We just restored from backup."

RattleyCooper 5y ago
>The disappointment is real when you tell the ransomware guy, "We're not paying. We just restored from backup." Worked at a trucking company as a software dev and this exact thing happened. Got hit with ransomware attack but our IT team had daily backups of EVERYTHING. This was when ransomware was first "taking off" and they weren't even 100% sure if the attack was real. I wish I got to see the ransomware's operator's reaction, but I honestly feel like they probably had enough people falling for it so I doubt they really got that upset.