How K7 Protects Against Ransomware?

Answer 1

K7 EPS employs two methods to provide direct protection against ransomware:

Signature-based Detection – The K7 Threat Lab analyses hundreds of thousands of malware samples every day and releases malware definition updates multiple times a day to identify ransomware by their signatures and stop them Behaviour-based Detection – Ransomware operators know that cybersecurity firms utilise signatures to stop ransomware, and develop obfuscation methods to hide their signatures. Behaviour-based detection uses heuristic scanning, monitoring potentially suspicious processes, and increases in file entropy to identify ransomware that is obfuscated. This method is also used to detect new ransomware that may not have a malware sample One of the challenges faced in creating anti-ransomware solutions is the legitimate use of encryption for data security, which you may use in your organisation to protect private or proprietary information. K7 EPS is designed to differentiate between malicious encryption and legitimate encryption, and only stop the former.

Signature- and behaviour-based detection stops ransomware once the malicious payload is activated. K7 EPS also includes features that stop cyberthreats before their payload can be deployed, including automatic email scanning, blocking of phishing links and malicious websites, and scanning of USB drives (or even blocking them entirely if you wish) to stop malware ingress.