The impacts of downtime on a business can be devastating, as this cringe–inducing chart reveals:
Downtime impacts
Source: 3 Steps to IT Resilience, Forrester
Veterans can sometimes be like cross-fitters and vegans-if you haven’t figured out who they are in the first five minutes of speaking with them, they will most likely tell you within the next five minutes of your conversation. Take me for instance, I’m a clean-eating combat veteran with a respectable 4-minute Fran time myself. See what I did there? I hope you’ll give me a pass.
The last time I posted, I described several cybersecurity solutions which are moving beyond the reactive, siloed offerings that continue to be necessary, but are no longer sufficient to protect our enterprises.
These solutions can seem daunting. The complexity of it all often overwhelms.
This is partly due to what’s happening to our information infrastructures, which are also becoming more complex as they go hybrid. They are, essentially, boundless as they accommodate internet communication. Meanwhile, today’s in–house data centers are increasingly virtualized and typically combine a variety of cloud and managed services.
In my previous post, I pointed to several top security threats your clients face in attempting to protect their data and systems.
Cyberthreats like app attacks, web attacks, social engineering exploits, and ransomware are only a few of your customers’ concerns. They must also (or will soon) contend with breaches that steal or corrupt huge swaths of “big data,” the risks of trusting IoT (Internet of Things) devices and sensors , and the dangerous vulnerabilities of industrial control systems .
In my recent posts, I’ve focused on some of the top security threats faced by anyone trying to keep their business data and systems safe.
Besides app attacks, web attacks, social engineering exploits, and ransomware, there’s plenty more to be concerned about – the challenges of trusting devices and sensors that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT), breaches that steal huge swaths of “big data,” and the frightening vulnerabilities of industrial control systems .
In my last post, I focused on several key types of cyber threat most likely to challenge your business right now. This time, I’m drilling down — to ransomware and what you can do to protect your enterprise from it.
Why ransomware prevention? Because security experts regard ransomware as today’s most serious cyber threat , having increased 35% in just a year to an average of nearly 1,000 per day in 2015 .
