Category: Ransomware

  • February 12, 2026 · Ed Dubrovsky

    The Quiet Collapse of Ransomware-as-a-Service — and Why Data Is Now the Real Target

    Ransomware-as-a-Service is collapsing as attackers abandon noisy encryption in favor of fast, AI-driven data exfiltration, making unstructured data protection—not endpoint recovery—the defining challenge for modern cyber defense.

  • May 16, 2025 · Tom Ward

    Why Microsoft-Centric Security Isn't Enough: The Case for Zero Trust Data Access

    Microsoft’s native security tools are essential, but they weren’t built to fully protect unstructured data across hybrid environments. Zero Trust Data Access (ZTDA) addresses this gap by enforcing continuous identity verification and file-level access controls. ZTDA complements — not replaces — Microsoft-centric security, and solutions like FileFlex make it practical to deploy without changing infrastructure.

  • October 3, 2024 · Tom Ward

    Cybersecurity for Law Firms: The Priority of Zero Trust Security

    Cybersecurity and Zero Trust Data Access security is crucial for law firms to protect sensitive client data, mitigate insider threats, comply with regulations, and maintain client trust amidst growing cyber threats like ransomware and data breaches.

  • July 23, 2024 · Tom Ward

    How to Enforce Zero Trust Access Control to Mitigate Ransomware

    Zero trust access control, achieved by integrating Illumio Core with FileFlex Enterprise, allows organizations to effectively mitigate data breaches and ransomware risks, ensuring enhanced security, visibility, and operational efficiency through centralized management and strict access controls.

  • November 28, 2023 · Tom Ward

    Cyber Defense After the GoAnywhere and MOVEit Breaches

    The recent GoAnywhere and MOVEit breaches reinforce the need for a more robust alternative based on a zero-trust data access architecture.

  • May 19, 2023 · Tom Ward

    How to Reduce Ransomware Risk Using Zero Trust Data Access

    Ransomware attacks in 2023 pose a pervasive and costly threat to organizations, but adopting Zero Trust Data Access (ZTDA) through FileFlex Enterprise offers granular access controls, minimizes lateral movement, and helps the detection of data extraction through robust activity monitoring, to reduce the risk of ransomware and aid data protection and uninterrupted business operations.

  • April 4, 2022 · Tom Ward

    How to Reduce the Risk of Ransomware with Zero Trust

    How to reduce the risk of ransomware with the zero trust platform of FileFlex Enterprise is important and relevant in today’s cybersecurity environment. Ransomware is a rapidly growing and popular form of cyberattack because it works. Ransomware can cost organizations millions of dollars and it can require hundreds of hours to rebuild devices and restore data that have been affected by an attack.