The ransomware Boogeyman: 5 ways you can defeat him!

How can you protect your business against ransomware attacks?

In this episode of Techcess, Mark Riddell explains what aspects of your business the ransomware boogeyman can attack, and how you can ensure you're ready to defend!

He explains how there are five clear steps to keeping the ransomware hackers at bay, and ensuring your business doesn't become just another victim!

Busting the ransomware myth

Ransomware attacks are increasing, making it essential that you're armed with the knowledge on how to better protect your business.

A lot of business owners and leaders dismiss this from their task list, saying "oh it will never happen to us" or "hackers don't target companies like ours" but the opposite is true.

Hackers go after the easy pickings, and they'll be able to predict your level of protection based on the size of your company.

All it takes is one person in your business to take the wrong action with a rogue email, and everything can be lost in seconds.

One very specific way of ensuring this doesn't happen...

This topic is actually covered extensively in the first part of this episode with step one.

Training your staff.

If you're a business decision maker and you've been resistant to figuring out your staff's cyber security training, then you should definitely listen to this episode.

You might be surprised!

Excerpt from episode 87 of Techcess

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"How great would it be if your IT support company did this for you and were able to provide you with a report showing the patch health of your systems? That would be a much better way than simply relying on your team to do this by themselves. m3 Networks weekly patch management is included as part of our IT support package, so all of our customers never have to worry about software updates. Do you know if your IT support company does this? If you're not sure, I recommend that you go and ask them!"

Tech Topics covered in this episode of Techcess:

• The ransomware boogeyman and an overview of the threat to your business
• Step 1 - staff training
• Step 2- data backup
• Step 3- software updates
• Step 4 - antivirus
• Step 5 - MFA (multi factor authentication

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Mark Riddell's technology podcast "Techcess" is an m3 Networks production. Mark and the team have created this podcast to help you and their clients understand how technology can help them in their industry and business, including helping them with cyber security solutions. To find out more about Mark Riddell and the rest of the m3 team, visit them here and follow them on Linkedin.

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