Ransomware Best Practice Checklist
Ransomware. The fact that only top firms make headlines when they are hit may lead some in Main-street businesses to believe that they aren’t targets for hackers. Somehow, non-Fortune 500™ companies are immune from attack because they are small fish. Of...
What to Do If Your Financial Firm Gets Infected with Ransomware
Ransomware happens. You do your best to prevent it from happening to you, but inevitably someone clicks on something they shouldn’t or your protection tool misses the latest strain of hack and your systems get infected. There is no “one size fits...
The Latest Ransomware Threat
It’s no surprise that the state of cybersecurity is constantly changing. Criminals will be criminals. Knowing this does not make it any less annoying to think that just when you have addressed one vulnerability, another one (or two) opens up. It can drive a business...
Take Ransomware Seriously…Seriously
I cannot tell you how often I hear company executives saying something like this: “No one wants my data, so why is anyone going to spend the time to hack me? I’m not too concerned with security”. Ugh. That point may be true to them, but it has no...
Phishing Happens and MFA May Not Save You
I wrote a blog article a while ago about how sh*t happens. Sh*tty things will happen no matter how hard you try to avoid them, so the important thing is how you deal with them when they become reality. Well, some cybersecurity sh*t happened recently and it was a great...
John Ahlberg
CEO, Waident
CIO in the corporate world and now for Waident clients. John injects order and technology into business process to keep employees productive, enterprises running, and data safe.