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May 17 |
Windows 10 tools have been added to the Ransomware Prevention Kit
Posted by Amy Babinchak on 17 May 2018 12:41 PM
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It has been about a year since we added new material into the Ransomware Prevention Kit. That’s a long time and it’s because Ransomware is somewhat a mature industry now. In the 5 years that we’ve been fighting this nasty with IT best practices we’ve noticed a certain stability. The attacks methods are varied but they really boil down into a few basic concepts that you need to avoid Ransomware.
Another thing has changed in the last 5 years. Computers are now more frequently not joined to on-premises domains. Instead they are stand-alone or joined to Azure AD. This on top of the announcements that Group Policy is now considered legacy technology and Software Restriction To that end you are going to find .reg, .pol files are the predominate means to managing Windows 10 computers. But we’ve also still supplied the old software restriction group policies because they still work. We’ve just put the new configurations into a different format. In the photo above you see the list of files that reside inside of the zip file you’re going to find in the kit called Win10RansomPreventionFiles.zip. Note the text filed called Read the PDF’s first. Guess what that means? It means that you really, really, really need to read the two PDF files first in order to understand what the local group policy and reg keys are doing and how to customize them for your use. The PDF called Ransomware and Windows 10 is a long article detailing out all of the settings, what they do and how to manually deploy them. Once you understand that, you can then move to using the pre-built tools that we provided so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. There’s a second PDF that you should also read. Preventing ransomware on Windows 10 depends on using Windows Defender so please read the Understanding Windows Defender PDF. Especially if you think you don’t care about Defender. Many of us did’t like Defender and I want you to rethink that as we have. I hope that you enjoy these new additions to the kit. I’ve copied other relevant articles into the zip file for convenience mostly. They aren’t new but they go along with Windows 10 and represent a tiny start to a reorganization of the materials to make them easier to find and consume. One last thing, as you know we raised money from the donations for the kit to launch a scholarship fund. It is working. We are providing scholarships, changing lives and improving our industry at the same time. You should be proud of yourself for your contribution. Here’s a note from a recipient and if you’d like to make another contribution, your money is welcome. You can make another donation here
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