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The U.S. Government has launched a new resource to help combat the ransomware pandemic. Below is the relevant information it has shared: The U.S. Government launched a new website to help public and private organizations defend against the rise in ransomware cases. StopRansomware.gov is a whole-of-government approach that gives one central location for ransomware resources …
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Just as one pandemic — COVID-19 — seems to be winding down, another — THE RANSOMWARE PANDEMIC — is now wreaking havoc on our society with full force. Critical Information You Need to Help Better Protect Your Practice and Your Clients From Ransomware, my article in the July 2021 Texas Bar Journal, attempts to provide …
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I was a guest recently on the Reimagining Security Podcast and recorded the episode “So you’ve been hacked, now what?” Here is a link to a detailed and informative blog post about the episode and the actual episode. As detailed in the blog post, we covered these key topics and a few more: reasonable cybersecurity …
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The threat of ransomware attacks against all American businesses is so great that on June 2, 2021, the White House issued a memo to all corporate executives and business leaders with the subject “What We Urge You To Do To Protect Against The Threat of Ransomware.” This is the first time such a memo has ever been …
Many thanks to the Texas Bar Journal for publishing my recent article, Working From Home During COVID-19? Five Things You Should be Doing–But Probably Are Not–To Be More Cyber Secure, in the Cybersecurity Issue: Without an understanding of the particular organization or the unique risks it faces, it is impossible to know what is best or …
Sun Tzu taught that, when it comes to the art of cybersecurity, you must be wary of your business partners and other third parties. Why?Unless you are living under a rock, you should have heard that FireEye–perhaps the preeminent cybersecurity firm on the face of the planet–was the victim of a successful cyberattack. So were …
***URGENT MEMORANDUM*** TO: “The IT Guy” FROM: Your clients’ Incident Response Coach SUBJECT: Securing RDP Access–Changing the RDP Port Does Not Work! This Memo comes out of necessity, please take it seriously. I have now lost track of how many times over the past couple of months I have been on “scoping calls” with a …
A lot of business executives — and far too many IT professionals — think that their company’s IT systems are too sophisticated and well-maintained for their company to have a successful cyberattack against it. They think their company is doing it all right and this is only the kind of stuff that happens to “the …
A lot of business executives — and far too many IT professionals — think that their company’s IT systems are too sophisticated and well-maintained for their company to have a successful ransomware attack against it. They think their company is doing it all right and this is only the kind of stuff that happens to …
Here is one of the questions we get asked most often: “Ok, so we’ve had a real data breach and you say we have clear notification obligations, what can happen if we just ignore it and pretend it never happened — that is, we just don’t notify?” Unfortunately, this question is oftentimes coupled with this …
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