Ransomware

Don't be held hostage

Don't Be the Next Victim

Ransomware attacks have been making headlines for years, encrypting data and holding it for ransom payments. Victims range from worldwide corporations to hospitals to private citizens. Learning how to mitigate ransomware is critical for all organizations.

Know Your Enemy

48% of data breaches involved ransomware. Don't join the club.

2026 State of Ransomware Report

2,158 organizations hit by ransomware in the past year share costs and root causes.

Active Adversary Report 2026

661 IR and MDR cases across 70 countries reveal how today's attackers operate.

2026 State of Identity Security Report

5,000 IT and cybersecurity leaders across 17 countries reveal the rising cost and frequency of identity attacks.

Train Your Organization to Stop Ransomware

Our free anti-ransomware toolkit gives IT managers ready-to-use resources that teach teams how to prevent ransomware attacks. The kit includes:

Sample ransomware tabletop exercise
Incident response planning guide
Endpoint protection best practices to stop ransomware
Best practices for securing your network from ransomware
And more

Ransomware Best Practices

Follow these top tips to minimize your risk of attack:

Use multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Use complex passwords
Limit access rights; give user accounts and administrators only the access rights they need and nothing more
Make regular backups, and keep them offsite and offline where attackers can’t find them
Patch early and patch often. Ransomware actors exploit unpatched vulnerabilities to compromise environments — and frontier AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery.
Lock down your RDP. Turn off RDP if you don’t need it, and use rate limiting and MFA if you do.
Ensure tamper protection is enabled – Ryuk and other ransomware strains attempt to disable your endpoint protection

Deploy World-Class Protection

Today’s ransomware attacks often combine multiple advanced techniques even real-time hacking via subscriptions to ransomware-as-a-service. To minimize your risk of falling victim you need advanced protection that monitors and secures the whole attack chain.

Sophos Managed Detection and Response

24/7 expert-led threat hunting, detection, and response. Sophos MDR neutralizes ransomware and other advanced threats on your behalf — including the 88% of attacks that strike outside business hours.

Sophos Endpoint, EDR + XDR

The foundation of your ransomware defense system. Sophos Endpoint and EDR combine AI, CryptoGuard anti-ransomware, Adaptive Attack Protection, and 60+ built-in exploit mitigations to shut down attacks before they impact your business. Sophos XDR unifies telemetry from all control points (servers, firewalls, cloud, email, identity, etc.) into a single management console.

Sophos Firewall

Stop ransomware at the perimeter and contain it if it gets in. Sophos Firewall uses deep learning and AI to detect and block ransomware at the gateway, with lateral movement prevention, Zero Trust Network Access, and active threat response that shares signals with Sophos Endpoint to shut down attacks as they unfold.

Ransomware

Don't be held hostage

Don't Be the Next Victim

Know Your Enemy

2026 State of Ransomware Report

Active Adversary Report 2026

2026 State of Identity Security Report

Train Your Organization to Stop Ransomware

Ransomware Best Practices

Deploy World-Class Protection

Sophos Managed Detection and Response

Sophos Endpoint, EDR + XDR

Sophos Firewall

Train Your Organization to Stop Ransomware

Ransomware Best Practices

Deploy World-Class Protection

Sophos Managed Detection and Response

Sophos Endpoint, EDR + XDR

Sophos Firewall

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