By Ameen Chowdhary, Network Security Engineer at Tec-Refresh, Inc. With poor security practices being all but commonplace in our world, it is only natural that we associate errors with being strictly human errors. Sometimes organizations do a terrible job of securing customer data, and now and then, we hear of someone’s account being hacked. Contrary …
FortiGate Cloud is a cloud-based SaaS, offering a range of management and services for Fortinet Firewalls. FortiGate Cloud offers zero-touch deployment, configuration management, reporting and analytics. As a cloud service, FortiGate Cloud can grow with your requirements from a single FortiGate all the way up to a full MSP management solution for thousands of devices …
Coveware published their Quarterly Ransomware Report on November 4, 2020. One of the continuing trends in 2020: Average and median ransom payments continue to rise. Here are some quick ransomware payment statistics from Coveware’s Q3 2020 Ransomware Report. Q3 Highlights The average ransom payment for Q3 2020 was $233,817. This is up 31% from Q2 …
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Forrester’s Guide To Paying Ransomware helps security pros understand the process of responding to a ransomware incident and deciding if paying a ransom is the best business decision. A Ransomware Attack Is A Data Breach Unauthorized code execution by a third party that accesses and encrypts business-critical data is a data breach. Don’t just settle …
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With ransomware attacks continuing to rise, organizations are often forced to trade-off paying the ransom with costly downtime. Even with defense mechanisms in place, extortionists continue to find new mechanisms to encrypt organizations’ data. Backups are one of the most – if not the most – important defense against ransomware. But if subject to corruption, …
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Ransomware attacks are on the rise, and in the era of COVID-19, there is no end in sight. New work from home policies has left organizations with a challenge to ensure that employees are securely connected. Backups are one of the most, if not the most, essential defenses against ransomware. If compromised, however, attackers can …
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