As the ransomware industry has expanded over the last decade, so have the number of sources attempting to track the phenomenon in all its financial and human horror. Today, keeping up with either has become a full-time job. Ransomware has become ubiquitous, but so have the mainly private sector security companies queuing up to tell […]
Sponsored Post: Nasuni The challenge that most organizations struggle with is keeping everything safe. Cybersecurity is like a game of whack-a-mole. You protect one thing, and the threat actors attack a different system. So, you protect that one better and then they are on to another system. The more tools and systems we expose outside our internal […]
As every organization affected by ransomware eventually understands, the disruption caused by an attack is only the beginning of its problems. Next comes paying a lot of big bills. The first is the ransom demand, although at least that’s optional. Beyond that lie unavoidable costs such as loss of business, hiring an expensive forensics company […]
Sponsored Post: Palo Alto Ransomware is on the minds of IT executives and managers the world over. According to the National Cyber Security Center in 2022, ransomware is the biggest cybersecurity threat facing the world today. Unfortunately, there isn’t any one security tool by itself that can prevent such attacks. That’s because network architectures and […]
By anyone’s standards, $10 million is a lot of money, more than the average citizen will spend or earn in a lifetime of work. How many ways might someone become the recipient of such a large sum? A lottery win perhaps, although that’s statistically unlikely. An inheritance? More imaginable but still improbable. And yet there […]
Until early June, it’s likely that the only people who’d heard of Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer platform were people working in IT departments. Then news emerged that the platform and many of its large customer base had been successfully targeted by the Clop ransomware group and suddenly everyone had heard of it for the […]
