Ransomware is one of the most worrisome types of malware. It doesn’t steal your data; it threatens to cripple your business — to tie up the resources that you need to service your customers, produce your products, send invoices, and pay your bills. And even paying the ransom does not guarantee that you’ll regain control of your systems. In fact, it encourages the perpetrators to continue using their tools to attack other organizations and maybe even come back your way.

The cautions routinely offered to keep you from being victimized include backing up your data to multiple locations, being more cautious online, using tools to detect intrusions and the presence of malware, limiting access privileges, etc. But what if you could disable malware before it ever had a chance to touch your files? What if ransomware couldn’t “see” your files at all, never mind leave them encrypted and inaccessible? I recently had a chance to discuss this possibility with some reps from a company that claims it can do just that, so I thought that I should bring this option into focus for those of us who worry a lot about the ransomware threat.

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