As organisations grow and mature, they tend to become increasingly aware of their cyber security needs. In commercial environments, this awareness translates into having at the very least, a firewall installed within the office premises. And today, most companies do at least have a firewall to protect them from malicious websites and cyber-attacks. This brings up the question: why do firewall often fail at preventing ransomware attacks?

In the cybersecurity industry, there is an arms race. Cybersecurity services providers and products are increasing their efforts in detecting new attacks (called zero-day vulnerability exploitations).

At the same time, cybercriminals are finding unheard ways to exploit networks. So far, ransomware gangs are winning – now is the time to invent or re-think if the current detection-only methodology is working.