Prevention of Ransomware Attacks by Increasing Security Awareness

Nyikes, Zoltán and Szűcs, Endre (2019) Prevention of Ransomware Attacks by Increasing Security Awareness. Papers on Technical Science, 11. pp. 149-152. ISSN 2601-5773

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Abstract

There is a strong relationship between groups of users who don’t use anti-virus and those who don’t backup their data, meaning that a similar proportion of users don't use either of these two means of protection. In case of users who lack knowledge in informatics there is an increase in the number of virus attacks; these users are more likely to not use anti-virus and neglect to back up their data. For digital systems, users who are – based on our classification – in a lower rank, represent increased risk based on the number of the occurred virus attacks. For every user group there is a need for continuous and repeated safety awareness training to reach and retain a high safety level/

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