Category: Management Consulting

Ransomware is using a variety of methods to reduce or nullify the effectiveness of data backups, writes Maria Korolov at CSO. Restoring from a backup is one of the best strategies that organizations can use to recover from a ransomware attack, so it’s obvious why attackers would want to target this data. Ransomware has been observed attacking shared network drives, Windows shadow copies, and any files that have backup file extensions. Some ransomware variants can even sync with the victim’s cloud service and encrypt files stored there. Read more here...

Bethan Moorcraft at InsuranceBusiness Mag UK wrote an excellent article about the current state of cyber insurance in Europe. Here is an extract with the link to the full article at the bottom: “In 2018, we saw a huge proliferation of very successful phishingcampaigns,” said Ryan Rubin, partner, UK Forensic & Integrity Services team, Ernst & Young. “Unfortunately, cyber criminals are being very effective and are getting through organisations’ defences, despite there being an increasing awareness of cyber risk and a general improvement in security controls. What we’ve seen is that businesses often focus on trying to prevent the sophisticated cyberattacks from happening, and they’re less concerned about basic low-level attacks like phishing and business email compromise. Read the full article...

Business Insider just posted an article that confirms something I have been saying for years. There is some contrary data though. We may be looking at a light version of rewriting history. Here are the highlights they started with: Vint Cerf, one of the creators of the internet, said the network had two big flaws when he launched it.The internet didn't have room for all the devices that would eventually be connected to it, said Cerf, now Google's chief internet evangelist.It also didn't have any built-in security protocols.Even though both shortcomings proved problematic, Cerf's not certain he would have fixed them if he had to do it all over again. Read the full article here....