What to do after WannaCry Ransomware Attack

Curated by Paul Helmick

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The world had a busy weekend – since its discovery on Friday afternoon, the WannaCry ransomware attack has continued to spread this weekend, impacting over 10,000 organizations and 200,000 individuals in over 150 countries, with new variations have beginning to surface
RIGHT NOW you must apply the MS17-010 patch If you do not have it, and you have TCP port 445 open, your system will be hit by ransomware
What can we learn from this attack, and what three things can we do to guard against future attacks of this nature – the Gartner Group has some great pointers to share here.

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