Proactive Preparation and Hardening Against Destructive Attacks: 2026 Edition

This post provides proactive recommendations to defend against destructive cyberattacks, wipers, and modified ransomware.

• •Resilience strategies include out-of-band communication, defined recovery plans, third-party vendor agreements, and recovery exercises.
• •External-facing assets should be identified and hardened; cloud providers offer attack surface discovery tools.
• •MFA must be enforced for all external access; FIDO2/WebAuthn is most secure, SMS/email least preferred.
• •Google SecOps users can leverage Mandiant rule packs to detect behaviors like disk wiping, Defender exclusions, and process masquerading.

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