Author: Peter Rigbye

40% of Businesses Hit by Ransomware in the Last Year

Nearly 40 percent of businesses have experienced a ransomware attack in the last year, according to a new study.

Scary results from this study suggest that apart from the cost to productivity, more than 30% of businesses lost revenue and 20% had to stop business completely.

Despite the focus on updated malware protection, these attacks are still getting through.

Even more disturbingly the study suggests that 40% of victims are paying the ransom demand, and yet they should simply be able to restore from backups.

The fact that they don’t suggests that they don’t have adequate backups.

If you are not 100% sure your backups can protect you from ransomware losses, contact PASR today to ensure that if/when you are hit, you will not end up paying hundreds, or thousands, of $$$$$ to get your data back.

There is currently NO OTHER WAY to reverse the effects of this malware!

If you would like to discuss this issue and what it means for your business, please get in touch. Since inception in 1996, PASR Technologies has been providing SME business owners with a level of service and support to the SME business owner that is typically only directly available in very large organisations.

Servicing businesses from 10 to up to 200 employees, our clients range from local SMEs through to regional offices of larger MNCs, and include airlines.

At PASR Technologies, we solve your IT problems before you even realize you have one!

Too Small to be Hacked? [Think you are not at risk?]

The Internet is a dangerous, anarchic place, and we always adopt what we believe to be appropriate and effective security precautions for our clients’ system. However, as we are dealing with smaller clients in the 10-200 user space, many of these feel that they are simply too small to be targeted by hackers, and often request lowering of their security settings as they often find them a little cumbersome, and thus reduce ease of use of their systems.

They make this request to lower their security settings because they feel that they are simply too small to be targeted by hackers and that they are not at risk. In our opinion, nothing could be further from the truth!

72% of known hacker breaches impacted business with less than 100 employees.
50% of those small businesses felt they were too small to be hacked. *
Nearly 1 million new malware threats are released every day

Continue reading Too Small to be Hacked? [Think you are not at risk?]

Is Windows Finally Secure?

We’ve all believed for so long that the Windows operating systems are full of security flaws: – but is this really the case, and more to the point, is it still the case?

With the significant number of security flaws impacting non-windows systems coming to light over the past nine months – a new phenomenon in computing history, I’m prompted to ask this question. General perception has always been that only Windows suffers from security flaws, but I’m not a believer, and would to present here a different perspective for your consideration. Continue reading Is Windows Finally Secure?

Who can access your cloud data?

Somewhat unsurprisingly, The US Justice Department is insisting that Microsoft give them access to email data of a subscriber from Office365 servers physically located in Dublin Ireland.

While we don’t know who that subscriber may be, or why such data is required, or where they are domiciled, it raises a number of questions for organisations planning to, or already having, their data maintained in cloud facilities owned and operated by US entities.

It seems that just having the physical servers located outside the USA does not preclude such access. Therefore such access provisions would apply to Google’s various cloud platforms, Amazon’s AWS, Salesforce.com and of course Microsoft’s Azure, among many others.

It’s no wonder that signing up now for Office365 involves a lengthy security check confirming we as users know an understand the risks and access provisions that could apply.

Before you move your data and hosting to the cloud, make sure you are not subject to any local regulatory restraints that may preclude you from doing so, or run afoul of the local regulator.

PASR Technologies has been providing SME business owners with a level of service and support to the SME business owner that is typically only directly available in very large organisations.

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Author: Peter Rigbye

40% of Businesses Hit by Ransomware in the Last Year

Too Small to be Hacked? [Think you are not at risk?]

Is Windows Finally Secure?

Who can access your cloud data?

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