4 Cybersecurity Trends Agencies Should Stay on Top of in 2022
In the year ahead, adversaries certainly will continue to refine their tradecraft, becoming even more sophisticated and brazen in their cyber campaigns.
Posts Tagged: ransomware
Avoiding Ransomware Horror Stories
Here are three ways agencies can prepare for and avoid ransomware attacks disrupting their product and service delivery to constituents.
Edge Computing Raises Ransomware Risk
Agencies could pay a steep price, literally, if they do not secure the growing volume of data at the edge of the network.
Don’t Sleep on Cybersecurity
Many people have either seen too many headlines about attacks, or they still feel embarrassed about falling for last month’s phishing email.
3 Steps for Improving Your Ransomware Response
Ransomware is evolving, but so can your security awareness and preparedness.
Surviving Ransomware in 3 Steps
Ransomware is a malicious software that is increasingly frightening to federal, state and local agencies – and the citizens they serve – nationwide.
How State, Local Agencies Can Deal with Surge in Cyberthreats
Among other strategies, cyber experts say agencies need to double-down on cyber training, since end-users continue to be the weakest link in cyber defenses.
Incident Response – Why Government Should Plan and Practice Its InfoSec Readiness
Does your government agency have an incident response plan? If so, how often do you review it or ideally practice it? Let’s review some of the obvious and some of the less well-known benefits of prioritizing the planning and testing of IR plans.
Ransomware’s Deadly Turn for the Worse (and What You Can Do About It)
Like lethal strikes carried out by the Serengetti’s deadly predators, ransomware attacks often unfold quickly, stealthily and with great harm to victims. That’s because beasts of prey, whether equipped with claw and fang or malicious malware, exploit a pack’s weakest links. They prey on the careless and the naive, the ones who stray from theRead… Read more »
How to Strengthen Ransomware Defenses and Build Cyber Resilience
A cybersecurity expert highlighted three methods that are key to ransomware protection: exploit blocking, machine learning and indicators of attack.