Remember paying the ransom will not always bring back the data – take steps now

phishing email threat

If your back-up and incident response plan is completely useless, you could always fall back on just paying the ransom that the cyber criminals demand. A Sophos study showed 46% of businesses did this: Study: 90% of organizations say ransomware impacted their ability to operate | TechRepublic But this study …

When you improve your defences – the hackers change their tactics

Patches and Updates

Following up on the two articles I posted yesterday, to give you an awareness of the threat landscape, here are two articles discussing how that landscape is constantly changing. Criminals adopting new methods to bypass improved defenses • The Register Cybercriminals are finding new ways to target cloud environments | …

Why you need to look at your cybersecurity risks and mitigations

Here are a couple of longer articles, that give you some idea into the scale of cyber security and information security responsibilities, owners, directors and senior managers face in the current threat landscape. Over 42 million people in the UK had financial data compromised | TechRepublic Report: Many SMBs wouldn’t …