Ransomware protection
Extortion needs leverage: readable data to publish and unreadable data to sell back. Persistent file-level encryption removes both. A network breach stops being a data breach — and stops being a reportable event.
of organisations experienced a ransomware incident or threat within the last year.
average cost of a ransomware breach, including downtime, recovery and lost revenue.
to communicate a data breach to each affected customer — before fines or litigation.
Walk the chain. Assume every earlier control fails — because in the incidents that made the news, they did. Compare what the traditional stack yields with what PADS leaves behind.
Disk encryption and TLS do not protect you from a network breach that becomes a ransomware event. Encrypt at the file level and the breach stays a breach of the network — not of the data.
Disk-level and in-transit encryption do not protect data once the perimeter is breached. Without file-level encryption, a network breach escalates into a ransomware incident.
Phishing, compromised RDP, drive-by downloads — the list evolves continuously. Solving this at the vector level is an endless game of cat and mouse.
Stolen credentials let attackers appear legitimate and pass controls unnoticed. Few tools block ransomware that uses valid access.
EDR and XDR typically identify ransomware only once files are already compromised. By response time, critical data has often left.
Restrictive policy controls impede productivity and collaboration, yet rarely prevent file theft — because the files themselves remain vulnerable.
Restores bring systems back but do not stop attackers encrypting and exfiltrating data. Downtime, loss and compliance exposure still land.
AES-256, FIPS 140-2, applied at the file with keys held in an HSM.
Files are unreadable and unmodifiable, so a second encryption layer adds no leverage.
Nothing was readable to take and nothing readable can be withheld. Recovery is a restore, not a negotiation.
HOW PADS MITIGATES RANSOMWARE
Persistent encryption and access policy add a data-level defense alongside endpoint security and recovery.
Before the file is accessed
Even with system access, an attacker cannot open sensitive files without explicit authentication and authorisation.
Dynamic role- and location-based controls define who accesses which files, when, and from where — shrinking exposure.
When the attack reaches data
File-level encryption renders data unreadable and unmodifiable, so ransomware cannot effectively re-encrypt it.
Suspicious file activity is monitored and alerted on, enabling quarantine before damage spreads.
After a copy leaves
Stolen files stay encrypted and useless without keys, and access can be revoked remotely after exfiltration.
Files remain protected regardless of endpoint security failures, complementing the tooling you already run.
Information Rights Management keeps protection in force during sharing and limits lateral movement through strict file permissions.
GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS all require a baseline of encryption at rest and in transit. As every headline incident shows, that baseline does not prevent a data breach, the remediation bill, the legal exposure, or the brand damage.
With PADS, ransomware that infiltrates the environment still finds encrypted, inaccessible files — which keeps the incident inside your network instead of inside a disclosure notice.
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Any file your people actually work in — Office documents, PDFs, CAD and engineering files, images, source archives, exports and log files. Protection is applied to the file itself, so format is not the constraint.
No. Network position grants nothing on its own. Decryption keys are held in a Hardware Security Module and released only for requests that satisfy policy, so lateral movement yields ciphertext.
Encryption and decryption are automatic and transparent. Files open in their native applications with no new workflow, no plugin to learn and no decision for the user to get wrong — which is why the protection actually stays in place.
No. Full-disk encryption protects a powered-off device. Once the system is running and the session is authenticated — which is exactly the state an attacker operates in — the files are readable. File-level encryption is what persists past that point.
Yes. Protection travels with the file across on-premises shares, endpoints, cloud storage and collaboration platforms, so the same policy applies wherever the data comes to rest.
If attackers breach the network, they should gain nothing. Stolen files stay encrypted and useless — your business stays operating, compliant, and out of the disclosure cycle.