Office 365 Ransomware Recovery Tools & Preventive Measures.

What Is Ransomware? How Does It Spread?

In the last few years of the digital age, cybercriminals have come up with well-crafted, harmful techniques to victimize internet users in any way that is possible. One such cyber-attack method is called ransomware. As the name suggests, ransomware is a malicious program that steals or encrypts data from the user’s device or programs. Later, cybercriminals mandate victims for some ransom in return for that stolen or encrypted data. They usually sell the data further to companies or use it to carry out further cyber attacks to cause you harm.

Ransomware is spread almost like any other malicious infections. Some familiar sources of ransomware infections include the following:

• A malicious email
• Opening phishing links
• Downloading files that have malicious scripts embedded into it
• Accessing any infected hard drive or a pen drive without scanning for viruses and malware

Office 365 Ransomware Prevention Measures And Recovery Techniques

There are usual precautions against malicious attacks with ransomware, such as one should avoid opening any unknown emails or verify URLs before clicking. However, there are some additional considerations to protect online tools and storage against ransomware:

Disconnecting malicious offline storage

Once the user finds out that any device is affected by ransomware or some malicious program, the user should disconnect the system from the network and online storage right away. If the online room is in sync with infected files, then the whole cloud server and database can be endangered.

Online storage backup tool

There are numerous backup tools available on the internet for cloud storage services. Creating a simple backup regularly with a trusted automation tool can offer excellent protection against ransomware. The right backup tool can ensure Office 365 Ransomware recovery against any such infections and help users restore their data once again.

Restoring files to previous versions

One of the great features users can find in Office 365 is version history. Users can revert files to their previous versions. In this case, data can go back to the state when it was not infected.

However, there are limitations to version history and supported files. If the user does not have a file with Microsoft Office or Office 365, ransomware files can not revert to previous versions.

Microsoft advanced threat protection (ATP)

Office 365 can be secured against any malicious threats spreading through emails using Microsoft ATP ransomware. Microsoft ATP can prohibit ransomware infections spread by email messages, links, attachments, and collaboration tools.

Office 365 antivirus tools

Microsoft ATP offers inbuilt Anti-spam and Anti-malware protection for Office 365 users. In addition to that, users can also leverage a third-party Office 365 Antivirus for further protection against ransomware. There is a wide range of formidable antivirus which can offer a great deal of security.