Cybersecurity is a hot topic among Connecticut business leaders, and with good reason. More and more, we see headlines about big brands that have suffered a cyber attacks or data breaches with their customers’ private information dragged to the Dark Web for sale to the highest bidder. And while cyber liability insurance will pay the significant financial losses as a result of a data breach, investment in preventative measures can reduce the risk of this happening to your business. But at what cost? We will look at the cost of cybersecurity protection in Connecticut.
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March has been a busy month for the IT departments in Connecticut towns and not for good reasons. Several town computer networks, namely Plymouth and Colchester's, fell victim to ransomware attacks.
Here's how ransomware attacks generally work.
A criminal emails the potential victim in hopes of getting some virus to encrypt data and lockdown the computer. In the case of the towns here in CT, the victims were employees for the town and they accidentally assumed the e-mail was coming from a credible source, such as a colleague, an e-commerce vendor like Amazon or perhaps even another government agency.
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Lots of us don't think about the connection between having a clean desk and security. But our desk is actually a perfect spot to talk about security with our staff.
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The war between organizations and cyber criminals is spreading, and new trends in cybersecurity threaten to outpace and overtake organizations that are not protected.
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