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title: "White Paper: Five Lessons Learned from 1000 Ransomware Attacks"
description: RiskRecon developed five lessons learned from over 600 ransomware attacks that can be applied to any third-party risk management program.
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# [White Paper: Five Lessons Learned from 1000 Ransomware Attacks](https://blog.riskrecon.com/resources/reports-and-whitepapers/white-paper-five-lessons-learned-from-1000-ransomware-attacks)

 Written by [RiskRecon](https://blog.riskrecon.com/resources/reports-and-whitepapers/author/riskrecon) | Jan 15, 2023 2:30:00 PM

Much has been written about hardening enterprises against the threat of ransomware, but what about protecting supply chains? Ideally, every supplier has a robust security program, strong ransomware defense, and stout resilience measures in place. Unfortunately, as we have learned in the face of other threats, this is not the case.

In this white paper, our research team breaks down five important insights for better managing supply chain ransomware risk based on an analysis of over 1000 publicly disclosed ransomware events occurring from 2017-2022.

[View full post](https://blog.riskrecon.com/resources/reports-and-whitepapers/white-paper-five-lessons-learned-from-1000-ransomware-attacks)

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