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Ransomware: do you pay ransom or not? This is the title of our webinar during the online congress Overheid360, where FAST LTA and COMEX together with our partner GouwIT on Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 10:15 a.m. explore the question, whether…
Data is the new gold. Treat it as such, too! There are a lot of people working in IT today, with 1001 different positions. The cool thing – at least, we think so – is that in the end, it’s…
Ransomware hackers are getting smarter. What to do. How safe is safe? The ExaGrid company must have been wondering the same thing recently. The storage hardware manufacturer previously won several awards because its storage is so good. And it ís…
The account of ransomware In our previous blog, we already discussed two major costs in the event of a successful ransomware attack. Because of downtime – the time you are not operational – costs quickly skyrocket, averaging 23 times the…
Ransomware costs more than just ransomware! In 2020, we saw a sharp increase in ransomware. This is partly due to the reduced security of working from home a lot. For cybercriminals, this is right up their alley and they apparently…
Emotet rolled up; what can we learn? In late January, Interpol put an end to the notorious virus network Emotet with Operation Ladybird. Emotet existed since 2014 and initially focused mainly on banks and other financial institutions. In 7 years,…
So can this: a System Rescue Brick Very common: a USB stick or even CD labeled “System Rescue. Do you remember them? These devices had a small Linux system that you could plug into a computer. After rebooting, you then…
Note! Ransomware attacks on the data store layer! Ransomware represents for many businesses and organizations and outright threat. Ransomware is malware that encrypts a computer and/or data. It then demands a ransom from the user to free the computer and…
Why offsite backup is really necessary Backup and archive data are best protected offsite, for the simple reason that these data cannot then be unauthorized damaged by ransomware, hackers or sabotage. Of course, data can also be accidentally corrupted, by…
Pay money to get your data back? It sounds like a distant concept, yet more and more companies and organizations are facing this question. The answer at first will invariably be “no, of course not! After all: there is a…
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