The Cyberbit Ransomware Field Guide explains that ransomware is among the top cybersecurity threats because it can cause severe financial, operational, legal, and reputational damage, with the average 2021 cost to rectify an attack estimated at about $1.85M. It describes an evolving landscape driven by ransomware-as-a-service, increased human error, cryptocurrency anonymity, and double extortion tactics that combine encryption with data theft and leak threats. The guide defines “ransomware readiness” as knowing where sensitive data resides, enforcing monitored access controls, maintaining protected off-network backups, strengthening authentication and password hygiene, limiting privileged accounts, building a security-aware culture, deploying anti-ransomware tools, and ensuring a skilled S

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