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Recent high-profile ransomware and cyberattacks expose vulnerabilities in commercial buildings that are far too widespread. In fact, the same headline-making exposures of late can be faced by any company that uses operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT).
Smart leaders across the nation and around the world should be thinking: “Maybe it could happen here.” The question becomes how to prevent similar attacks and how to position your organization to meet upcoming cybersecurity mandates with wide-ranging implications. Those of us in the cybersecurity business are aware of many such incidents, including some stories from my experience.

Less than a month ago, President Biden released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2022 that includes $9.8 billion in funding for cybersecurity enhancements. Cyberbreaches are making the headlines too often – almost on a weekly basis – and those are only the attacks that are reported. Not only are the breaches costly, but they also are dangerous. Potential threats to public safety as a result of cyberbreaches, in fact, are daunting. The Administration has made it clear that the Federal government intends to provide as much protection to the nation’s overall infrastructure as possible.

All enterprises have to handle customer data, including PII, but often small businesses do not have the resources to effectively safeguard against cyber threats.

In the latest Cybersecurity Magazine article, Ashley Lukehart offers 10 important cybersecurity statistics regarding the reality of cyberattacks on small businesses, and gives some tips on how small businesses should approach cybersecurity attack prevention

Since the start of the COVID19 pandemic, enterprises worldwide have adopted the work-from-home model. This shift has resulted in an increase in cyberattacks, and some traditional models of security are becoming ineffective as employees increasingly access resources remotely and use personal devices.
In the latest Cybersecurity Magazine article, Varin Khera argues for the use of ‘zero-trust’ security models and examines the best practices for adopting such a model.

Ransomware has become one of the most high profile cybersecurity problems, with a huge rise in the number of ransomware attacks in the past years as business attempt to deal with the operational flux brought by the pandemic. Steve Blow, Zerto, discusses the impact of ransomware and argues for a more modern mindset and use of Continuous Data Protection.

The second article is now available of our two-part series looking at the security challenges faced by when using hybrid and multi cloud implementations

Tom Madsen now examines how some of the risks can be mitigated and how to reduce the complexity of typical hybrid and multi cloud implementations.

The latest article from Cybersecurity Magazine is the first in a two-part series looking at the challenges faced by cybersecurity professionals when clients are using multiple clouds as well as local infrastructure to run their business.
In this first article, Tom Madsen focusses on the various challenges in this environment.

In the latest Cybersecurity Magazine article, Idan Aharoni, IntelFinder, looks at how extortion has evolved from a niche monetization method to a wide spread tactic, and how scammers have now joined the game, sending ransom demands that are fundamentally unfounded.