3 Easy Ways to Make Your Company Immune to Cyber Ransom Attacks

When was the last time you took stock of your company’s data? Businesses large and small build up enormous amounts of data – from customer information to internal accounting records – and can easily lose track of where it’s all stored or the date of their last backup. These and other seemingly small oversights are the leading causes of cyber-ransom attacks, and incidents are on the rise. Is your network protected?Earlier this year, the issue came to the forefront when a Hollywood, CA hospital was hit with a cyber ransom attack. Hackers used ransomware to encrypt the hospital’s own data, refusing to provide a decryption key unless they received the demanded payment. According to a Fortune article on the attack, hospital employees, locked out of their email servers, were forced to rely on fax to communicate. Certain tests, scans, and even patients’ medical records were also inaccessible. And while law enforcement did get involved, there is often little that they can do in these cases if the attack is untraceable.