Beyond Patient Zero: Why Detection Is Dead And Quarantine Is King
Zscaler, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
A recent survey found the median ransomware variant can encrypt nearly 100,000 files (about 53.93GB) in 43 minutes.
This is why 'Time to Detect' is starting to feel like a comforting statistic from a slower decade.
In times where ransomware can encrypt 300 files in under a minute, detection is a consolation prize, not a strategy. If your security tool alerts you five minutes after a user has downloaded a malicious file, the damage is already in motion.