
Inside a Ransomware Response: A 15-Minute Timeline From Detection to Containment
It’s 11:58 PM on a Tuesday. A finance manager at a mid-sized manufacturing firm gets a Slack message from IT: file shares are acting strange. Reports won’t open. A shared drive that held two decades of engineering drawings now shows every filename ending in a string of random characters. Then the wallpaper on a shop-floor workstation changes to a red screen with a ransom note. This is how most ransomware incidents actually begin, not with

