Month: June 2021

Organizations that pay ransom to hackers are 80% more likely to experience a repeat attack. Unless your business has bottomless financial reserves, continuously paying hackers to give you back your data is NOT a viable cybersecurity strategy. Research by Cybereason shows that not only did many companies face repeated attacks after paying ransomware, 50% of…

Human error is a common cause of data loss. It is estimated that as must as 90% of data beaches are due to human error. The errors aren’t always intentional, sometime accidents happen (actually, they happen a lot). Cloud-based SaaS (software as a service) applications, like Microsoft 365 and G Suite, feature auto-save and reduce…

The recent high-profile ransomware attacks, like the attack on Colonial Pipeline, sparked a nationwide discussion of whether or not to pay ransomware. There are certainly valid aguments on both sides. Some experts have argued companies should refuse to pay ransoms because doing so only encourages cybercriminals and puts a target on your back or the…