Protect Against Ransomware With Immutable Backups

One of the most effective ways to protect against ransomware attacks is to have immutable backups. Immutable backups are backups that cannot be altered or deleted, even by users with administrative privileges. This means that if your system is [...]

2023-03-27T16:10:42-07:00March 23rd, 2023|

Microsoft Monitoring Over 100 Ransomware Threat Actors

Microsoft recently disclosed that they are monitoring over 100 different threat actors utilizing 50 unique ransomware families to attack businesses and organizations across the world. These attacks have been increasing in frequency, severity, and sophistication. The threat actors behind [...]

2023-08-10T22:32:36-07:00February 21st, 2023|

Why Your Cybersecurity Strategy Must Include Multi-Factor Authentication

The cybersecurity industry is buried in unexplained and confusing terms and acronyms. Two important terms that everyone should know and understand are multi-factor authentication (MFA) and two-factor authentication (2FA). They are both security mechanisms designed to accurately identify a [...]

2023-02-16T13:33:27-08:00February 16th, 2023|

The Social & Psychological Impacts of Ransomware

When a ransomware gang attacks, it’s not just a problem for IT professionals, it impacts everyone. A ransomware attack triggers a chain reaction. Not only is it damaging to the entity, but it can also impact its employees, third-party [...]

2023-02-20T20:29:10-08:00February 2nd, 2023|

“Pig-Butchering” Crypto Investment Scam

In recent news, the FBI sent out alerts of a new cryptocurrency investment scam that’s sweeping America, the “pig-butchering” scam. Originating from China, criminals behind this cryptocurrency scheme have expanded their operations to Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, and Malaysia. Researchers discovered [...]

2023-02-20T20:37:48-08:00January 26th, 2023|

Impact of Cyber Attacks on Water Infrastructure

We hear a lot about critical infrastructure and how important it is to secure it. But few categories of infrastructure are more critical to human existence than water and wastewater processing and transport systems. Next to the air we [...]

2023-01-31T15:06:09-08:00January 12th, 2023|

Why Healthcare Entities Should Invest in Robust Cybersecurity

Healthcare organizations are under attack from all sides of their businesses. We are seeing a major increase in directed ransomware and other cyber-attacks on a variety of healthcare organizations and their partners. These attacks are crippling operations, while also [...]

2023-01-12T20:03:08-08:00January 10th, 2023|

Infrastructure Monitoring Solutions: Tool vs Service

The backend system of every organization is complex and unique, so it can be challenging to find the right IT infrastructure monitoring solution that works with one’s network and systems. There are two main ways to implement infrastructure monitoring: [...]

2022-12-30T13:46:04-08:00December 30th, 2022|

Why Infrastructure Monitoring is Critical to Your Business

What is Infrastructure Monitoring? Infrastructure monitoring refers to the collection and review of information on infrastructure components to measure performance and efficiency. It gauges how healthy a system is by collecting the performance information and data from servers, databases, [...]

2023-01-17T11:17:50-08:00December 29th, 2022|

Emergency Help for Fortinet Ransomware & Cyber Breach Recovery

FortiOS Ransomware and Cyber Breach Vulnerabilities are Back! Fortinet is again the target of hackers, ransomware hackers specifically. Fortinet’s big problem is a zero-day buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiOS. We have seen that it is already leading to breached [...]

2023-02-20T20:58:50-08:00December 15th, 2022|