How Web Application Firewalls and Application Delivery Controllers help protect against ransomware attacks?

For several years now, ransomware has remained one of the greatest threats in the world of cybersecurity. It is a type of attack in which malicious software encrypts data or blocks access to systems and then demands a ransom for unlocking them. Any company—regardless of industry, size, or level of security—can fall victim to ransomware. Even worse, modern ransomware campaigns are becoming increasingly sophisticated, often combining social engineering techniques with the exploitation of vulnerabilities in web applications and configuration errors in infrastructure.