Corporate networks keep sensitive files off individual workstations and store them on shared servers that staff reach through mapped network drives. That arrangement hands ransomware operators a target worth chasing. A single compromised laptop can begin encrypting files that live on a server across the building, and the encryption travels over the network as ordinary file-sharing traffic. Endpoint detection tools watch the machine they run on. When the encryption lands on a remote file server, … More → The post Catching ransomware on the wire before it locks the file server appeared first on Help Net Security .