Two Weeks of Cyber Hell

TRUE STORY:

I had a fringe customer who would call us when they needed something to their network.  They had roughly a Hundred Employees.  The internal IT department consisted of the office manager.  They used outdated unsupported operating systems and all day to day operations were performed by the office manager.

A hacker who phished their way to a Unsupported Windows 7 device, got hold of the machine, reversed engineered himself to SUPER USER status on the server, and went through the server and spent the time to figure out how the company was run.  About 2 weeks later on a Saturday night, they encrypted their entire network Computers, Servers everything.  Deleted all the backups and canceled the offsite backup.

They wanted $250,000 to get their data back and unencrypt all their data.

Luckily I was able to recover the data from the offsite backup and rebuild all of their computers.

The Moral of the story is , do not rely on untrained personnel and keep your tech updated to the newest revisions.

 

Inadequate backups

“Inadequate backups”

Following the global pandemic, organizations world-wide shifted to predominantly remote working environments. Unfortunately, a large number business discovered they were not properly prepared for this shift in operational process and continue to run into challenges related to ensuring network security and data protection.  Contact us today to assess if effectiveness and reliability of your current backup protocols and ensure that all employees have been trained on any new or alternative procedures

 

Why I Left Dropbox

With Axcient X360 your files are at your finger tips from anywhere. Unlike drop box, you can edit Word and excel files from their editor or through or a simple office 365 integration. Those files can be always on the cloud, or on your computer with instant syncing to the cloud. Axcient 360 also has team account security so that you can easily secure files within your team. If you get ransomware at 2 PM, roll back your account to 1:59 and get your life back.

There are many other features, and this is my tool of choice for my customers…

contact me if you have questions avantinetworks.com

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Let Johnny Use Your Work Laptop

Let Johnny Use Your Work Laptop

So your son and daughter used your work computer last night, now your companies server has ransomware.  There is not much to prevent this, have you educated your staff, created an Acceptable Use Policy which states that this may be cause for termination.

21 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Your Hybrid Workforce

 

CONTACT US TO LEARN MORE ABOUT EACH OF THESE SECURITY BEST PRACTICES
AND MORE FOR HYBRID WORK ENVIRONMENTS.

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Bitdefender Antivirus DO NOT USE IT..... if you like viruses

 Bitdefender voted best Antivirus/Cybersecurity protection for business.

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Your biggest threat to your company is your employee

Your biggest threat to your company is your employee...  seen it first hand 1/2 dozen times accountants stealing, couple of dozen times employees feeling they are not paid enough creating fraud and Identity theft.  

OR

Most likely situation that will occur, your employee clicking on the wrong email causing ransomware, Identity Theft, or viruses.  You should be considering the following;

• Employees
• Training
• Restricting Access
• Passwords
• Outsourced Personnel

There are solutions, contact us at https://avantinetworks.com/contact-us/  for a free no pressure (I Promise) 1 hour no obligation consultation.  Call now.

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