Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Part 7 of my Ransomware Mini-series has been published today: You and a Ransomware Resilient Back-up – CyberAwake Here are the previous parts if you missed them: Ransomware Mini-Series (2023) Ransomware: Is it a Threat? (Part 1) A Bag of Spanners – Planning and Preparation (Part 2) Minimise the Damage …
Cyber incidents that impact your organisation are not always malicious. A cleaner could pull the plug on your server or a member of staff may inadvertently switch a vital bit of your network off (I have seen t done, too many times) or a service that you rely on may …
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Since the outbreak of the Russia Ukraine conflict data wiping malware has became more common as a cyber security threat to organisations: Effective, fast, and unrecoverable: Wiper malware is popping up everywhere | Ars Technica The latest variants are becoming quicker and more effective at permanently destroying your information. Your …
It is ransomware: Rackspace confirms outage was caused by ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com) Rackspace has now confirmed that the outage of Exchange email services for its clients is being caused by a ransomware infection inside their systems – but they refer to this as “isolated disruption”. Which I think is a …
This is what cyber security can become. Not sure what it means? It means navel gazing – thinking about one thing to the exclusion of the wider picture. So what am I talking about? You have been sold anti-virus and a firewall, you’ve set the updates to automatic and have …
