Mitigating a Ransomware Attack – Can Security Awareness Training Assist?

Mitigating a Ransomware Attack – Can Security Awareness Training Assist? As the frequency and cost of ransomware attacks continue to rise, solutions for ransomware mitigation and prevention must be at the top of every IT leader and department's list of priorities. Where most see crisis, cybercriminals see opportunity. In this article, learn how security leaders can meet the challenges of mitigating ransomware threats and phishing attacks. Is security awareness training the answer? Traditional ransomware tricks users into running it and then it replicates itself on various endpoints across the network. It then encrypts those systems and demands a ransom — usually some type of cryptocurrency — in exchange for a decryption key to rescue data and files. Since the start of the pandemic, there has been a global surge in ransomware attacks. 40% of organisations in the UK, US, Canada, and Germany have suffered from a ransomware attack in the last

By |2023-03-30T17:09:33+00:00June 16th, 2021|Blog|Comments Off on Mitigating a Ransomware Attack – Can Security Awareness Training Assist?
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Building the case for Security Validation

Building the case for Security Validation Image credit: USA Today Events of the last month have shown that, despite best efforts and assumptions on how well protected corporate networks are, damaging Ransomware attacks and other cyber threats, continue to wreak havoc on companies and organisations in all industry sectors. Just in the last month, we have seen crippling Ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, the Irish Health Service, the University of Portsmouth, and many others.  In most, if not all, of these cases, the IT and information security teams will undoubtedly have told their management teams and oversight Boards, that they had invested in adequate security controls and that they conduct regular penetration testing. So, it begs the question: why are corporate networks still so vulnerable to these attacks?  The answers to this are probably wide ranging, but one consistent theme is an assumption that corporate networks are protected because certain

By |2023-03-30T17:09:33+00:00May 18th, 2021|Blog|Comments Off on Building the case for Security Validation
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