Effective security can help companies save in excess of $1 million on a nation-state attack from the likes of Russia, China and North Korea. Today’s columnist, Dan Pitman of Alert Logic, says as part of the security equation, companies should focus requests-for-proposals around business goals vs. looking to bring on too many products.
Ramsonware incidents against healthcare and government organizations have been few and far between in 2021, but experts say that could change as the year goes on.
Historically, ransomware was not seen as government’s problem any more than shoplifting: a crime against businesses that federal law enforcement saw as beyond its domain. But that may be changing.
Here’s what the television show got right, and what it got wrong, from the role of cyber insurance, to response and recovery timelines.
A days-long outage affecting mobile and web-based service calls into question Kia’s contingency planning for cybersecurity incidents, even as the company remains defiant about claims that a ransomware attack is to blame.
The Cuba ransomware gang launched assaults in February on a payment processor widely used by many state and municipal agencies across the United States to manage utility bills and driver’s license data.
Ransomware ringleaders and their customers have been put on notice: they may not be as untouchable as they thought.
Public hospitals and health organizations are already eligible, but a series of high-profile attacks on hospitals over the past year have convinced CIS leadership to expand the services to private hospitals as well.
Ransomware groups – and APTs – are leveraging an expanding list of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and technologies to overwhelm IT security teams.
At least tens of thousands of sensitive medical files were posted to a blog on the dark web that the hackers used to extort the two hospital chains.
