Sponsored Post: Nasuni In the early hours of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline’s CEO, Joseph Blount Jr., made the difficult decision to immediately shut down the company’s IT network in response to a ransomware attack that had been discovered only an hour earlier. Within 15 minutes of the decision, all 5,500 miles of the company’s […]
Sponsored Post: Nasuni Although many criminals often return to the scene of their crimes for macabre reasons, cybercriminals often return to the scene of a successful ransomware attack for more pragmatic purposes: success breeds success. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), 73% of organizations have been the victim of a successful ransomware attack, and 32% […]
Sponsored Post: Nasuni | Ransomware attacks have unfortunately become a pervasive and common occurrence for modern organizations. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), 73% of organizations have been the victim of a successful ransomware attack that resulted in financial loss, disrupted business operations, or other impacts (see Figure 1) within the past 12 months. According […]
For years, we’ve known how to eliminate passwords, but it was too hard for users. There may now be an accessible way for the average user. Or maybe not. On any list of priorities made by security practitioners, you’ll find something along the lines of, “Passwords are a disaster, and we need to get rid […]
In cybersecurity circles, there’s a threat that’s sufficiently feared in which examples of it have on occasion acquired the status of professional legends—the possibility of a lone, rogue administrator running amok against their employer. For years, stories of rogue admins concerned internal incidents known only within an individual organization. Then the Internet arrived. This not […]
Many organizations pay ransomware criminals, while anecdotal evidence suggests an increasing number don’t. But until recently, the consensus was that the decision to pay or not pay should be left to the victim. Now it looks as if this choice might soon be taken away with the news that the Biden administration is considering banning […]
