There are plenty of things to think about when looking at public cloud services. With this comparison of its services—mapped to similar offerings from other cloud service providers (CSPs)—Google Cloud has done a lot of the work for you. The list of services is incredibly long, but what stands out are the areas where Google… Read more »
Read the ArticleSmaller businesses are bearing the brunt of ransomware attacks. That’s the headline in a Forbes article summarizing a recent Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. Citing testimony from Justice Department Criminal Division Deputy Attorney General Richard Downing, cybercriminals don’t even need to create ransomware anymore now that licensed ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has arrived on the (crime) scene. The… Read more »
Read the ArticleRansomware constantly makes the headlines these days. This week, Sinclair Broadcasting saw its systems taken down, with one Sinclair reporter quoted as saying, “still no phones, file video or graphics” three days after the attack. The company’s stock dropped nearly 3 percent that day. We don’t know how the ransomware wiggled its way into Sinclair… Read more »
Read the ArticleDisaster recovery (DR) has one purpose: get your business back up and running while keeping data—and dollar—losses to a minimum. Cyber-recovery is about your business’s very survival, focusing on maintaining the minimum data, applications, and infrastructure that are essential for keeping things moving. That translates into prioritizing speed and availability for DR, while cyber-recovery focuses on security and data integrity.
Read the ArticleYour organization likely keeps an eye on every budget dollar carefully. But there’s one cost that usually only gets accounted for after the fact: downtime. It doesn’t matter if it’s caused by ransomware, a cybersecurity breach, hardware failure, or natural disaster, every minute of downtime can be costly. Hourly downtime costs can run from hundreds… Read more »
Read the ArticleRansomware. We can’t escape it. Banks saw a 1318 percent year-over-year increase in ransomware attacks in the first half of 2021. For healthcare, the increase was 123 percent. Indeed, some targets are more attractive than others to cybercriminals, but every industry is vulnerable. According to the SonicWall 2021 Cyber Threat report mid-year update, there were… Read more »
Read the ArticleIt’s been 15 years since the first National Security Awareness Month was launched by the National Cyber Security Alliance and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). But in the age of computing, the concept of cyber attacks dates way back to around 1970, when Bob Thomas created the first computer virus. Eighteen years later,… Read more »
Read the ArticleYour customers are all facing similar data protection challenges because we now live in a digital world. For businesses, both large and small, data is precious. As an MSP, you already know that keeping data safe from external threats is a never-ending battle. But there’s one threat that stands out because your customers see it… Read more »
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