Australia has released their Essential Eight Maturity Model (EEMM), and we have to hand it to them, it is good. It is simple, easy to interpret, and focuses on cyber threat prevention, instead of reaction. Australia’s Guide to Cyber Threat Prevention Let’s take a look at the eight essential steps included Australia’s EEMM, Application whitelisting […]
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Prominent ransomware attacks may have catapulted cyber crime into the spot light, but contrary to popular belief, ransomware is not a new threat. We have seen the evolution of cyber crime year over year, and it’s now time for better security. 2021 Ransomware Evolution Ransomware may have started in 1989, but the real boom didn’t
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Thanks to recent high-profile attacks, cyber-crime is now on the minds of business and government leaders, like never before. Rob Cheng joined Liz Callaway on the Liz Callaway Show to discuss recent cyber-crime and the focus on “whodunit”. Cyber-Crime & Its Origin Like any other crime, the people want to know who did it. Who
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With high profile ransomware attacks taking place more and more frequently, the U.S. administration has placed an emphasis on finding out who is responsible. The question is why? When it comes to these massive attacks, their level of sophistication is far greater than most. Meaning, the cyber criminals have spent months, perhaps even years to
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It has been a couple weeks since I have written to you all. First, I want to say thank you for your continued support for the #ApplicationWhitelistingMatters movement. There have been a few Twitter accounts, with a significant following, that have retweeted posts about the #AWLM movement — we just need to keep it up.
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President Biden recently met with his top security advisors after the latest ransomware attack against Kaseya led to approximately 1,500 organizations becoming infected with ransomware. The ransomware attack is believed to have had originated from Russia, just three weeks after Biden had a one-on-one meeting with Putin in Geneva. During this meeting, President Biden provided
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Rob Cheng, founder and CEO of PC Matic, joined CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning to discuss cybersecurity best practices. Rob stated much of today’s cyber threats are avoidable if the right technology is in place. As a matter of fact, he reported it could be reduced by a factor of ten, if organizations simply added
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Attention all PC Matic MSPs and resellers, PC Matic is offering free passes to CompTIA’s ChannelCon. Click here to register. CompTIA’s ChannelCon – What’s in it for you? ChannelCon event will take place virtually on August 3rd and 4th. Attending means you will have endless networking opportunities, right from your home office! Additionally, you will
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According to PC Matic founder and CEO, Rob Cheng, there are two types of security holes that organizations need to address. Unauthorized Software Unauthorized software is any type of software that you do not want running on your network. This may not always be malicious. For instance, if you issue a mobile device to employees,
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Over the weekend, I was reading an article about how ransomware is not out of control. On the contrary, the premise was security teams were lacking proper steps to thwart these attacks… Ransomware Attacks Are Spiking Ransomware attacks are indeed out of control; however, could it be our own fault? There are tools available that
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