Protect your cloud from stormy weather
Moved all your business data to the cloud? Protect your cloud from stormy weather. The fine print Did you read your agreement with Microsoft or Google? Are you clear on what you are responsible for? Diagram below shows the business is responsible for the data not Microsoft or Google. Data retention and compliance Different industries,…

2020 Year of the Viral Scam
2020 Year of the Viral Scam: this year will be remembered for many things, in the tech world it will be remembered as the year of the viral scam. 2020 Year of the Viral Scam From start to April 30 Canadians have reported 18803 fraud cases. The total for 2019 was 46,317 so we’re averaging…

Cyber insurance for your business
Cyber insurance for your business: do you need it? Cyber insurance for your business About once a month now I get asked by a client what is cyber insurance and do they need it? Sometimes I advise a client they should look into it. Why? What is cyber insurance? Cyberinsurance is a type of insurance…

Ransomware Rampages
Ransomware Rampages: seems like every week there’s another municipality or company making headlines for being ransomware victims. Why so many? How? Ransomware Review What is ransomware? It’s a type of malware that encrypts files on computers. The ransomware generates a key to decrypt the files that the victim has to pay to get. Ransomware can…

The True Cost of Ransomware
The True Cost of Ransomware: how much does a ransomware attack really cost your business? Fedex and TNT: NotPetya Fedex suffered via its subsidiary TNT in the NotPetya Ukraine attack in June. NotPetya was the attack that simulated ransomware but actually scrambled all the computer files irrecoverably. That attacked was aimed at bringing down Ukraine…