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Ransomware incidents are often treated as one-time events: pay, decrypt, recover, move on. But this conversation challenges that assumption.
If the underlying vulnerability or access path isn’t fixed, attackers can return quickly and repeat the attack. In some scenarios, paying a ransom may even signal that the organization is a viable repeat target.
This discussion highlights a critical gap in many incident response strategies: focusing on recovery without addressing persistence and root cause remediation.
True resilience requires more than decryption keys. It requires eliminating the conditions that allowed the intrusion in the first place, or risk becoming a repeat victim.
Cybersecurity is not just about recovery speed — it’s about preventing the same failure from happening twice.
If an attacker got back in tomorrow, would anything actually stop them?
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