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  5. Ransomware File Types

Ransomware File Types

Explore your data center using customizable report templates or by using parts of your IT infrastructure as entry points. Use Search to find reports, templates and dashboards across the portal.

Use the Reports tab to examine the catalog of templates, dashboards and reports - organized by products along with user-created, and system folders. This report is located here:

File Analytics > Storage Efficiencies > Ransomware File Types

This report aggregates ransomware files by their respective type. Bar charts provide an at-a-glance view of the number of files and their size.

See File Analytics Overview.

Table: Ransomware File Types

Column name

Description

File Type

Ransomware file type

# Files

Number of files in this type

Average Size

Average size of the files in this type

Total Size

Total size of the files in this type

Size %

Size in % of the files in this type

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