Approximately 32% of all enterprise breaches in 2023 involved extortion or ransomware, the malicious encryption of files that forces victims to pay to access their data, with an average cost of $5.23M USD. The attack vectors are constantly changing, and threat actors rigorously test their ransomware’s detectability to increase the likelihood of evading market-leading endpoint detection and response(EDR) technologies. In fact, the top eleven endpoint detection and response tools failed to prevent ransomware execution 65% of the time, according to academic research published in the Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy.

The Solution The Unisys Ransomware Protection solution stops ransomware attacks by tackling the one thing all forms of ransomware have in common: file encryption. The solution terminates the process that attempts to maliciously encrypt data while allowing encryption that is part of normal business operations.

Deployed alongside your existing EDR solution, the ransomware protection solution works immediately and defends your assets whether you are online or offline. The platform is not signature-based and requires no updates. The same core technology has stopped ransomware over the last seven years without needing changes to the detection logic.

Service Overview Unisys experts will work with your IT administrators to strategize simple and reliable deployment for new and existing Windows, MacOS and Linux hosts. The solution even supports older, unsupported endpoints and operational technology with backward capability to Windows XP and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Once deployed, the Unisys team finetunes detections for any unique applications or processes in your enterprise and begins monitoring alerts 24/7. When threats are detected and prevented, Unisys’ security operations team begins incident response to assess residual threats and prescribe remediation activities. This means there is no need to recover from backups, engage lawyers or forensics firms, or pay a ransom.