Crystal Valley, a Minnesota-based farming cooperative, has been hit by a ransomware attack, causing them to shut down their IT systems and their daily operations to be severely interrupted.
Veritas Technologies surveyed more than 2,000 global IT leaders whose organizations have undertaken pandemic-led digital transformation and found the majority are severely vulnerable to ransomware attacks because they’ve been unable to keep pace with the accelerated digitization.
Whether you build up in-house expertise or find a trusted outside partner, cybersecurity can no longer be a project set on the back burner. Let's walk through five prevalent cybersecurity threats for businesses, along with three helpful tips to combat them.
Iowa-based grain cooperative NEW Cooperative Inc.was struck by BlackMatter ransomware recently and has shut down its computer systems as it tries to mitigate the attack. BlackMatter is demanding a $5.9 million ransom.
The Biden administration is allegedly preparing to sanction financial exchanges that facilitate illicit digitalpayments to cybercriminals. How will this new initiative impact businesses?
Is the U.S. in a cyber war? Here, Eric Jeffery, Sr. Solutions Architect for IBM Security, explores the scale of the latest nation-state sponsored cyberattacks.
Disaster recovery solutions make it easy for administrators to prevent data loss caused by failure events or ransomware, even when they cannot be on-site.
Tony Bryson, Chief Information Security Officer for the Town of Gilbert, Ariz.,
scaled the town's cybersecurity defenses by adopting a preventative solution through a third-party security company to help to mitigate the risks associated with supply chain attacks.
Questions leaders can use to measure organization's ransomware preparedness
September 14, 2021
C-suite and other executives expect cyberattacks to increase over the next 12 months, yet only 33.3% say that their organizations have simulated ransomware attacks to prepare for such an incident, according to a recent Deloitte poll.