If you ever played tabletop role-playing games, you can think about a tabletop exercise as an IT version of Dungeons & Dragons. Pretend an attack is underway, then your team role-plays through how they will perform your incident response (IR) and disaster recovery (DR) plans. It’s an excellent tool for practicing and testing your plans. […]
Can ransomware be stopped, and can you survive after an attack? Absolutely – if you’re prepared ahead of time. 1. Have a Plan and a Playbook A clearly outlined, detailed plan must be in place well before any possible attack occurs. Nothing is worse than seeking a solution in the panic and confusion after discovery […]
Ransomware attacks have continued to plague organizations over the past few years, especially with the move to big game hunting at the end of 2019, and the debut of “double extortion” in 2020. Initially, threat actors primarily targeted Windows-based environments, but have more recently expanded capabilities to include Linux-based systems. In 2021, well-known groups including […]
Bernalillo County, New Mexico, started off 2022 the victim of a ransomware attack. Not a lot is known about the attack at the time of this writing, but it has all of the hallmarks of a ransomware attack against a municipality: But there is an interesting side note on the county’s status page: Vendors for […]
Businesses are increasingly being targeted by ransomware attacks. The crippling nature of these attacks makes it necessary to take precautions now. Data impacted by a ransomware attack can be rendered unusable, be captured and released to the competition, or see customer information revealed to public eyes. Any one of these can severely impact business operations […]
Backups Don’t Ensure Safety In years past, a solid backup process offered a reliable sense of security, but today, they are as much a target as anything else. As our visual guide explains, ransomware not only attacks the target system, but its backups as well, ensuring you can’t escape the demands that follow. An encrypted […]
