Ricoh's Ransomware Containment for K-12

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Use Case Ransomware Containment for K-12

• Protect your school with best-in-class ransomware
  defense.
• With more reliance on digital learning tools,
  greater access to connected devices, and large
  volumes of sensitive data, todays schools are
  experiencing cyber crime at an alarming rate. The
  consequences of these incidents can be
  crippling, and districts are paying the price
  with higher ransoms, complete shutdowns of
  student services and stolen personal information.
• Cyber crime incidents in K-12 education spiked
  to 7.3 in the 2022 school year. A jump of
  nearly 4.5 over the previous year.
• IBM. X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023.
• January 2023
• Todays schools depend on technology. In the
  classroom, it supports teacher planning and
  student learning outcomes, while outside the
  classroom it powers everything from door access
  and security cameras to admin workflows.
• In fact, technology is now so ubiquitous in
  education that 94 of schools in the U.S.
  provided laptops or tablets to students in the
  2022-2023 school year1 and that number is only
  expected to rise.
• But in the last year, the K-12 education sector
  has experienced the highest rate of ransomware
  attacks out of any industry2, with 8 out of 10
  districts or schools being affected.
• Challenges facing K-12 schools and districts in
  preventing ransomware attacks
• Limited funding and staffing resources for
  cybersecurity
• Growing number of attack vectors for ransomware
• Larger attack surfaces for cyber criminals to
  exploit
• Rapid tech adoption and highly connected digital
  classroom tools

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The Journal. School Pulse Panel. September 2022.
The Journal. School Pulse Panel. September 2022
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• Ransomware containment is a race against time.
• Ransomware can encrypt up to 50,000 files per
  minute.1
• Even with traditional perimeter-based security
  solutions, ransomware attacks can go unnoticed
  for days, if not weeks, before being detected
  and all it takes is to get through one endpoint.
  Unless theres 100 protection, 100 of the
  time, its only a matter of time before K-12 IT
  leaders are faced with an attack.
• Fortunately, schools and districts of any size
  can stop a ransomware attack within seconds
  even if its already begun, inside the network.
• Automated ransomware containment and isolation a
  last line of defense for schools
• RansomCare, powered by BullWall, is a software
  solution that works behind your firewall. It
  detects outbreaks in seconds, monitors data
  activity and immediately shuts down the source
  device to isolate and contain the spread of
  illegal file encryption.
• It doesnt matter who triggered the encryption,
  whether its a known ransomware variant, on what
  endpoint the outbreak started, or if it was
  deployed by someone inside the school or not,
  RansomCare analyzes each file accessed by a user
  on monitored file shares either on-premise or in
  the cloud.
• When encryption or file corruption is detected,
  an alert is raised instantly, and a response is
  triggered to disable and isolate the device and
  user encrypting your data. If a few files are
  encrypted before the forced shutdown or
  disconnection, they are logged in a recovery
  list, allowing for a faster recovery that can be
  integrated with your backup system.
• For K-12 schools, the advantages of ransomware
  containment are numerous
• Less downtime and shutdowns impacting student
  services and learning activities
• Fast and easy installation that does not require
  significant IT staffing resources
• Immediate response and isolation reduces
  expensive recovery efforts, legal costs and even
  ransoms
• Works invisibly, with no impact on network,
  device or application performance
• RansomCare integrates with cloud solutions such
  as Microsoft 365 and SharePoint. In addition,
  integration through RESTful API to other security
  solutions such as Cisco ISE and Windows Defender
  ATP means your security teams can unify security
  management across an increasingly complex sea of
  endpoints.
• Learn more about how Ricoh is protecting K-12
  schools from the effects of
• ransomware.
• https//www.ricoh-usa.com/ransomcare

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BullWall. 2023 Ransomware Report. August 2023
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