June 1st, 2019

Protect Your Company Against Ransomware

Ransomware attacks have been increasing over the last few years and are one of the leading causes of data loss for companies.

There are few steps that you can perform to help protect your company and your company data from ransomware attacks.

1. Have a good backup strategy - This is the first law of IT, back up your data.  If you have backups then exposure due to hardware failures and malicious attacks can be mitigated
2. Check your backups - We tell customers that you backup is only as good as the last time you restored it! Check early and often to make sure the backups are running properly.
3. Protection from the Internet - Hackers are constantly probing for holes. Have a good, stateful inspection firewall that only allows traffic that needs to be on your network.  If you are relying on the modem you got from your Internet provider it is likely not enough.
4. Protection from Internet Traffic that passes your firewall - Email is on of the biggest delivery sources for malware.  Have a good anti-virus and malware product on your firewall if possible and also on your internal computers.  Multiple lines of defense are necessary!
5. Educate Your Employees - A training course in how to recognize malware in email, how to avoid it and what to do if you lick the wrong link can easily return the cost of the training in up time and decreased incidents.

If you feel that you could use help with these steps please contact us - [email protected] 
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