Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The Wednesday Bit is on its summer holidays at the moment, but here is an article that I thought was worth reminding you about. Planning and Preparation Your incident response plans do not need to be very complicated or long – they just need to cover what you need to …
Once ransomware gets into an organisation, usually through some type of phishing attack, that organisation will have a problem that will cost it money and will damage its reputation. So, anything that makes it easier for ransomware attacks to flourish and increase has to be bad news for every organisation …
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There are hundreds of reasons organisations, lobbyists and some politicians will quote for not reporting a cyber-security breach – most will have to do with money. The one reason the rest of us should be in favour of reporting rules is that it is our data that these organisations have …
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Research by Coveware has shown a significant drop in ransomware payments by victims. New Ransomware Reporting Requirements Kick in as Victims Increasingly Avoid Paying (coveware.com) The reasons for the drop are varied but one of the highlighted reasons is that more organisations have ransomware strategies in place and are prepared …
Not from this cyber security expert: Ransomware victims targeted by fake hack-back offers (bleepingcomputer.com) Cyber-criminals will take advantage of anything to exploit a victim. Your takeaway from this… You need a ransomware plan and you can get (real) help with that starting with my Ransomware Primer – a series of …
