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 th
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 p
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
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 ransom
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
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,
A new year, a new ransomware attack. Portugal’s largest media conglomerate got hit hard over the New Year’s holiday weekend, and is still offline as of this article’
2021 was the year that ransomware went viral, and not in a good way. Although ransomware is far from a new scourge, it became household news this year as extremely high-profile attacks
According to the US Justice Department, more than 4,000 ransomware attacks happen daily, on average, in the US alone. Most of them don’t make the news. Many attacks are quietly paid off
