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LANDESK Expands Ransomware Protection
October 2016 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Building on a multi-layered approach to
defend against ransomware, LANDESK announced new capabilities to its LANDESK®
Security Suite.
LANDESK Security Suite offers the recommended multi-layered endpoint protection,
without disrupting productivity or business operations. With this latest release,
LANDESK has expanded its suite in all three critical areas of defense: detection,
prevention and remediation.
– Detection: LANDESK Security Suite enhances AV detection with active and passive discovery
technologies, visibility across the network and actionable data. In this new
release, IT can display information about the applications on each endpoint and act
instantly on suspicious and malicious apps.
– Prevention: Realistically, ransomware will get in. When that happens, the goal is to
minimize the chances it can execute. LANDESK Security Suite offers a range of
industry-recommended preventive measures, including, but not limited to,
application, device, and connection control and automated application and OS
patching.
Security Suite simplifies patch management with best practices, automated processes, fast
deployment and no impact on users. In this release, the new Installed Patch Report
provides an additional tool for timely, effective patching-offering easy access to
data on installed patches and those that still must be applied.
Additionally, Security Suite can now help keep ransomware and other malware from
modifying the master boot record and rendering the system useless.
– Remediation: Detection and prevention are crucial, and in many cases highly
effective, but organisations still need a plan in case ransomware executes on the
network. Realistically, all it takes is one user who clicks the wrong link or
downloads a malicious attachment in email to fall victim to an attack. Luckily,
LANDESK Security Suite adds to the final piece of the protection puzzle. This latest
release tackles the most widespread form of ransomware, which encrypts files and
hides the critical decryption key before demanding ransom. Security Suite detects
any attempt to encrypt files on the local machine, stops the encryption process, and
notifies all other computers on the network so the ransomware cannot be unleashed on
other users-effectively thwarting the attack.
