Ransomware encrypts your files and demands payment to unlock them, and sometimes the machine never recovers. These articles cover what ransomware does and the one defense that actually works, from someone who got hit early and lived it.
Incident ResponseSomebody opened a link, and their machine was a brick. Literally unrecoverable. Across a fleet of 1,500 desktops and laptops we lost machines to ransomware over and over, and never lost the network, because the network was designed by people…
BackupsCoffee in hand, you open an email demanding $500 in Bitcoin to unlock your photos, tax records, and three-year novel, and yesterday's urgent delivery notice was the invitation. It happens thousands of times a day, and the habits that stop…
Access ControlSecurity is mostly dull work nobody wants to do, patching, access reviews, backups, and it is also the entire job. Two decades in, the one time everything broke, it was backups that saved us, barely: a triple failure, snapped tapes,…
BackupsAttackers rarely come through the firewall; if they do, you were sloppy, because the firewall is the easy part. The real vectors are social engineering and the insider, and the insider is the most common and most overlooked. Two decades…
CISOI ran PCI compliance at a national retailer for twenty years and passed every audit, then started ghostwriting books for the security leaders who live this work. Here is what nobody admits: passing an audit and being secure are not…
BackupsOne week after his debut, Richard Lowe returned to 3 Ps in a Podcast as CISA passed the Senate 74 to 21, covering the ransomware business, offline backups, spear phishing, Stuxnet, and the security questions of the Internet of Things.
BackupsRichard Lowe joined 3 Ps in a Podcast as the featured guest for a full episode on security habits, social engineering, ransomware, and the CISA bill, closing with the best practices from Safe Computing Is Like Safe Sex.
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