Ensuring Legal Compliance After a Ransomware Attack

Recognizing the Threat: Understanding the Risks of Ransomware on Compliance Legal compliance after ransomware attacks is a critical concern for businesses. At Alvaka, we understand how these attacks can compromise not only your data security but also your ability to [...]

Ensuring Legal Compliance After a Ransomware Attack2024-09-25T11:58:09-07:00

Navigating Legal Compliance in Ransomware Recovery: Essential Factors

Understanding Ransomware and Its Legal Implications Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts a victim's files, making them inaccessible until a ransom is paid to retrieve the decryption key. This type of cyberattack can paralyze businesses and compromise sensitive [...]

Navigating Legal Compliance in Ransomware Recovery: Essential Factors2024-08-26T13:13:34-07:00

How Important Is Email Security for Small and Medium Businesses?

Email Security In today's digital landscape, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are increasingly becoming targets for cyberattacks. Among the most common and insidious methods employed by cybercriminals is email-based attacks. As the backbone of communication within organizations, emails often [...]

How Important Is Email Security for Small and Medium Businesses?2024-04-03T13:38:05-07:00

Pentagon’s lack of cyber authority leaves data at risk…

Lawmakers on the Senate Armed Forces Committee claim that the Department of Defense is not taking strong enough action against defense contractors in regards to protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), which is putting all of that data at risk. Given [...]

Pentagon’s lack of cyber authority leaves data at risk…2022-11-28T23:18:39-08:00

Steps for an Effective Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan

Written by Kevin McDonald, COO and CISO of Alvaka Networks. Originally published January 2016 on TechTarget. Kevin discusses steps to help you prepare a cybersecurity incident response. When your system is compromised, you generally have one chance to get the response [...]

Steps for an Effective Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan2021-06-23T12:37:20-07:00

GDPR: The Regulatory Iceberg of 2018

You're heading into dangerous waters. On May 25, 2018, the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into full effect, and it will almost certainly affect you. If you are not compliant with the GDPR by this date, you could [...]

GDPR: The Regulatory Iceberg of 20182020-05-18T15:12:15-07:00