How to start planning for disaster recovery

There is a famous quote I often think about at 3am on a Sunday morning as I am working with a client to recover from a large-scale cybersecurity incident: “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.” It is painfully obvious which clients have done some disaster… Continue reading How to start planning for disaster recovery

Analyzing Australia’s cyberthreat landscape, and what it means for the rest of the world

Australia has been the victim of damaging cyberattacks in the latter half of this year, with high-profile incidents impacting businesses across critical sectors such as telecoms, healthcare, and government. The impacts of some of these attacks have bee… Continue reading Analyzing Australia’s cyberthreat landscape, and what it means for the rest of the world

Could criminalizing ransomware payments put a stop to the current crime wave?

In this Help Net Security video, Charl van der Walt, Head of Security Research, Orange Cyberdefense, discusses whether criminalizing ransomware payments could quell the current crime wave by cutting off the flow of funds that motivates cybercriminals.
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