Cyber Pirates Can Hold Your Company’s Databases Hostage Unless You Pay a King’s Ransom

2024-06-10

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Pop quiz, hotshot. Hackers have frozen you out of your own databases. They tell you that if you want back in, you have to pay them a ransom in the next 24 hours. Oh, and if you don’t want them to sell your clients’ data on the black market, that’s another hefty fee, too. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO? That’s the question that keeps Terry Ziemniak, TechCXO’s fractional chief information security offer, working around the clock, advising businesses on how to build systems and protocols to protect their data, and to prepare a plan in case the b...

Pop quiz, hotshot.

Hackers have frozen you out of your own databases. They tell you that if you want back in, you have to pay them a ransom in the next 24 hours. Oh, and if you don’t want them to sell your clients’ data on the black market, that’s another hefty fee, too.

What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?

That’s the question that keeps Terry Ziemniak, TechCXO’s fractional chief information security offer, working around the clock, advising businesses on how to build systems and protocols to protect their data, and to prepare a plan in case the barbarians breach the castle gates.

What steps can you take to begin building a moat around your databases?

Terry has more than 25 years of experience in the information security field. This week he reveals the deeply guarded secrets to effective cybersecurity.

Monday Morning Radio is hosted by the father-son duo of Dean and Maxwell Rotbart.

Photo: Terry Ziemniak, TechCXO
Posted: June 10, 2024
Monday Morning Run Time: 48:00
Episode: 12.49

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