Getting Security Right Takes More Than Luck!
Cybersecurity has been an on-going and pressing issue for quite some time. What’s hard to fathom is that many businesses seem to fall way short on security—including the easy stuff!
Why is it so hard for enterprises to get security right?
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Another day at work.
Sifting through a hundred emails, carefully avoiding to click on the suspicious ones that might be spam or even worse intentioned phishing emails. DE just sent you an update on recent phishing attacks and you are up to speed with some of the current email tactics.
You’re completely informed and know how to deal with suspicious emails.
It’s 2 pm and after getting a pick-me-up coffee to round out the day, you return to your desk and realize a message from Microsoft on your computer. It says: “Your computer has been infected. Please call 1-888-643-9730.”
You dial the number and talk to a representative that thanked you for calling and told you she was going to walk you through fixing the virus problem on your machine. She would be removing the virus for free, but needs you to buy a $99 antivirus product to make sure the infection was completely removed.
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Is Your Business Prepared For The Latest Cybercrimes and Phishing Schemes?
You’d never believe the problems phishing schemes create. Just last week a hospital in California had to pay $17,000 to get their data back! Here are just a few of the very recent exploits that we’ve seen from phishing scams. Exploits that are not out of the ordinary—schemes that could quite possibly affect your business- regardless of size, geography, vertical.
I want to be very clear that cybersecurity IS something you need to be thinking about!
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I really wish I didn’t have to write an article about planning for cybersecurity—that instead I could just say having antivirus protection and following a few security guidelines would be enough. But the reality is without an up-to-date cybersecurity plan, you’re not safe!
Cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to get into your systems. Every week, there are more and more security breaches, identity theft or hacks compromising businesses of every vertical and size. It’s scary that there are too many data breaches to keep track of!
Considering this, I wanted to point out three important reasons why your cybersecurity plan is likely out of date and why you can’t wait until next year to get around to fixing it.
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FACT: 100% of all hard drives will eventually fail. Some will fail prematurely from manufacturers’ defects while others will fail because a mechanical part finally wears out.
The question is, how long until this happens to you?!
Backblaze—a leader in hard drive backups— conducted a comprehensive 4-year study on hard drive failures. Their results were very interesting:
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You might think that I’m a broken record, bringing up Cryptowall and ransomware threats time and time again. But the truth is, I value your data and I want to make sure it is safe!
Many folks think that cloud-based syncing tools like Google Drive and Dropbox automatically and securely solve your backup needs. It seems logical, but this is a dangerous misconception! With Dropbox, you simply have ONE copy in the cloud kept to sync with your local living copy. When that copy gets infected with Cryptowall, the infected copy becomes the living copy and becomes backed up in the cloud. Dropbox really isn’t designed to go back to a previous version.
Usually you won’t even realize that you’re hit with Cryptowall until it’s too late. And in this case, too late means your Dropbox files getting completely infected before you even notice something is wrong. Even worse, your shared files can get infected—leading to network-wide infections!
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