Preventable ransomware attack leads to unrecoverable $700,000 loss

A 10 attorney law firm discovered the cost of failing to protect its systems from ransomware the hard way.  An attorney clicked on a phishing e-mail, leading to a ransomware attack.  The firm apparently did not have a [...]

Preventable ransomware attack leads to unrecoverable $700,000 loss2024-10-09T05:09:34-07:00

What changed in NIST 800-171 r1?

If you must comply with NIST 800-171 under DFARS you may wonder what has changed with the first revision, released in December, 2016.  There are two substantive changes:  "Information Systems" has been replaced by "Systems" throughout the document.  This mean the [...]

What changed in NIST 800-171 r1?2017-07-10T21:15:22-07:00