EVERYDAY TECH - Ransomeware Beware!

This week's guests are from Seventh Knight, the developer of AppMoat.

Travis Odom – VP, Customer Experience

Charlie Case – VP, Government Services

Discussed on this episode:

What is Ransomware?

• encrypts (scrambles) personal files (documents, pictures, taxes, financial/customer records, etc)
• Requires paying a “ransom” to (maybe) get your files back
• Commonly initiated by malicious links in emails

Why should we be concerned?

• even if not YOUR business, we all pay when people lose
• Imagine losing family photos
• Even backups can be, and often are, compromised
• RECENT EXAMPLES: Including Yazoo County schools being held up for more than a quarter-million dollars!

What can we do about it?

• Awareness and recognizing scams is crucial
• Be suspicious
• Personal users can use tools such as CryptoPrevent
• Businesses can benefit from AppMoat, a 24/7 managed service to protect their systems
• (AppMoat is a Ransomware/Zero-Day Managed Endpoint Protection tool for Windows workstations and servers)
• https://www.seventhknight.com/appmoat/

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