Can network monitoring detect ransomware before encryption?
Often, because the steps before encryption cross the network: command-and-control check-ins, scanning, lateral movement and data theft. That is the window in which an attack can still be stopped. Not every attack shows all of them, and an attack confined to one machine gives the network little to see.
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