CASE STUDY | SOUTH LOUISIANA COMMUNITY COLLEGE Nick Pitre, Director of IT at South Louisiana Community College (SLCC) had a funny feeling something was brewing. The Ryuk ransomware variant had been making its rounds at colleges and universities, so he knew it would not be long before SLCC was also targeted. Sadly, he was right. “I noticed odd behavior when my team was not able to log in. Our servers were being encrypted,” Pitre recalled. The infiltration occurred by way of an administrator loading new software onto a forgotten Windows 7 desktop collecting dust in a closet. Without proper security measures, the admin’s credentials were captured, and the ransomware immediately activated and began, spreading to a handful of servers. But when the attack hit, Pitre was ready—so ready th

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