Netskope expands its Threat Protection product to cover ransomware

Ransomware is increasingly big business and more than 43 percent of malware types are used to deliver it. It can also be unwittingly spread via the use of cloud services.

To protect against the threat, cloud security company Netskope is adding ransomware detection and recovery capabilities to its Netskope Threat Protection product.

It uses a proprietary method of detection using machine learning to monitor file operations. In addition it has the ability to scan sanctioned cloud services, including Office 365, Box and Dropbox, for unauthorized encryption due to a ransomware infection and quickly fix the effects of an attack without paying a ransom.

After the active ransomware infection is contained, Netskope provides an integrated workflow that makes use of the versioning capabilities in cloud storage services to quickly restore encrypted files to earlier, unaffected, versions. These are then synchronized with any other affected endpoints.

"The cloud provides great opportunities for increased productivity through collaboration and sharing, but organizations need to consider myriad risks as they move to the cloud. In the case of ransomware, the versioning capabilities in some cloud services can provide powerful protection when coupled with our new ransomware detection and recovery capabilities," says Sanjay Beri, founder and CEO, Netskope. "This underscores our belief that the ongoing shift to the cloud will continue to accelerate as more organizations realize the benefits of the cloud without compromising security".

Ransomware detection and recovery capabilities for Netskope Threat Protection will be open for early adopters at the end of 2016 and generally available in the first quarter of 2017. For more information visit the Netskope website.

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