For enterprises that use the cloud, the key to being protected starts with understanding the layers that make up the components of their cloud stack. These different layers create multiple potential targets, and for the informed, they each represent a piece of the cloud environment that can be secured against potential threats.

Ransomware doesn’t have to be terribly complex stuff. To be effective, it just needs access. By paying attention to the different pieces of the cloud stack and addressing their unique security needs with these preparations, your environment will be far more resistant to ransomware threats: