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One of the worst nightmares for the IT professional is coming into the office in the morning and finding that your critical servers have been hijacked with ransomware. Business immediately grinds to a halt, and you need to have unpleasant meetings with management about how this happened and — more importantly — what you need to do next. You have two options: try to restore your impacted systems using a backup and hope that it will be malware-free, or elect to pay the ransom price and hope that you can trust that the perpetrators will restore your access to your own systems. There’s no guarantee that you will regain access to your files even if you pay. Not an appealing choice — and no matter which option you choose, it will be costly.