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Cybercrime trends - what are you seeing?

Beth - Community Manager
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Although break-ins and holiday house crimes increase this time of year, what about the cybercrimes online and in the cloud?

What do small business owners or IT managers need to be protecting against right now in the would of cyber crime, data security and tech safety best practices?

As a tech pro, what are you seeing trending that others need to be guarding against? Please exchange your thoughts in the comments below!

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    One of the more insidious threats currently, is the full encryption of a hard drive, holding all the data hostage.

    The criminals doing this target cities, hospitals, government agencies, businesses, and individuals.

    NPR had excellent coverage on this a few months ago, interviewing a mother and daughter who this impacted.

    The daughter ended up paying a ransom for the data, via a single ATM that took crypto coin, at a location in NYC.

    The best way to avoid this risk, is have separate and multiple backups of your data. Also backup frequently, so that the loss if it occurs is in hours, not days or worse.

    My personal goal is to be able to take a "bare metal" (nothing on it at all) system, and have the operating system, and my processes back to "business as usual" within 2 hours.

    Once you think you have this process it place, then actually test it! You might find you think you have a working back up, when in actuality there is an error in the process somewhere.

    Overview:

    1. Multiple backups

    2. Restoration process in place

    3. Test actual process as if a real emergency occurred

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    One of the more insidious threats currently, is the full encryption of a hard drive, holding all the data hostage.

    The criminals doing this target cities, hospitals, government agencies, businesses, and individuals.

    NPR had excellent coverage on this a few months ago, interviewing a mother and daughter who this impacted.

    The daughter ended up paying a ransom for the data, via a single ATM that took crypto coin, at a location in NYC.

    The best way to avoid this risk, is have separate and multiple backups of your data. Also backup frequently, so that the loss if it occurs is in hours, not days or worse.

    My personal goal is to be able to take a "bare metal" (nothing on it at all) system, and have the operating system, and my processes back to "business as usual" within 2 hours.

    Once you think you have this process it place, then actually test it! You might find you think you have a working back up, when in actuality there is an error in the process somewhere.

    Overview:

    1. Multiple backups

    2. Restoration process in place

    3. Test actual process as if a real emergency occurred

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     your statements on backup are correct, but only half the story.  Most of the ransomware is of the double extortion variety.  Before they encrypt your hard drive them upload the data to their server.  Even if you can restore all of your data they still have a copy that can be used to extort you.. 

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