A man walks through a server farm. The most pervasive wisdom about preventing damage from ransomware is to backup systems, but that alone may not be enough. (Amy Sacka for Microsoft)

The most pervasive wisdom about preventing damage from ransomware is to backup systems. FujiFilm and Colonial Pipeline in fact, restored from back-ups. So in an era of increased concern about ransomware, is solving the ransomware scourge as simple as investing in some backups?

"If it was that easy, [ransomware] just wouldn't be an issue," said Riley Stauffer, security and incident response analyst at managed detection and response firm Pondurance.