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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege). and you will never lose sleep over you cybersecurity issues – because Spinbackup takes care of your valuable data.

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Ransomware Operator: 'Start **cking Up the U.S. Public Sector'

SecureWorld News

The FBI and other global law enforcement teams worked together on this case, compromising backups that were later restored by the gang, giving authorities access to internal systems, a tactic often deployed by the gang itself. Are the backups stored offline? Have we tested our ability to revert to backups during an incident?".

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

On a Sunday in February 2018, the Colorado CISO’s office set up a temporary server to test a new cloud-based business process. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question.

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