Imagine you’ve been hit by a Cyber Attack. Your network is locked by ransomware and all your data is compromised. What now? Many people rely on their backups as a way to restore their data.

In August of 2021, CISA added “Single Factor Authentication” to its list of practices it considers “exceptionally risky” as it exposes you to an “unnecessary risk from threat actors”. As a result, you may start to see requests from multiple sources to implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) strategies.

I watch a lot of Cybersecurity presentations. Ransomware is on everyone’s lips as a major concern. Here are two interesting tidbits of information. Many Law Enforcement Agencies and CyberSecurity Analysts are now recommending that if you don’t pay the ransom, you keep your encrypted data and backups anyway.

Perhaps you’ve heard the story of the young girl walking along the seashore, who noticed hundreds of starfish that had washed up along the beach with the incoming tide. Knowing they would soon dry out in the hot sun and die, she quickly started picking them up and throwing them back into the sea.

Today’s Internet and network security environment is very different from what it was just a few short years ago. As we’ve discussed, legacy tools, basic firewalls, and basic anti-virus/malware are no longer sufficient to keep your network safe.