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<\/p>\nImagine the situation.\u00a0 On your computer that you\u2019ve spent years taking and collecting photos of your friends, family, pets, cars you\u2019ve owned and homes you\u2019ve lived in.\u00a0 You\u2019ve also spent hours editing a number of those photos plus sorting them into folders and albums.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got various copies of your CV that you\u2019ve used to apply for numerous jobs over the years, plus documents about your home, car\/life insurance, health care, banks statements, credit card bills and your old school and university course work.\u00a0 You\u2019ve also got the only copy in existence of the book you\u2019ve been attempting to write and finish for the last few years.<\/p>\n
One day you innocently open the attachment in an email you receive (from a known or unknown contact in your address book, it doesn\u2019t matter) and boom!\u00a0 You\u2019re presented with a screen that looks like the below.\u00a0 Your heart sinks\u2026<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhat just happened?\u201d\u00a0 Is this ransomware?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI thought my anti-virus software was up to date and was meant to stop things like this happening?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n That innocent, single press of a mouse button potentially means that all your precious memories and data are now lost forever\u2026 that is unless you\u2019re willing to pay the ransom\u2026 which typically means buying some cryptocurrency\u2026 and for which there is no actual guarantee that if you pay the ransom that you\u2019ll get your data back!<\/p>\n Then begin the thoughts of \u201cdid I backup that data anywhere else, and if so then when did I do it and where is it?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n For those of you who think you\u2019re safe because you never open any email attachments you receive, think again!\u00a0 There are several cryptoworms, that having once infected a single machine on a computer network, they spread to others on the network typically by exploiting un-patched vulnerabilities in the computer\u2019s operating systems.\u00a0 You might now start to think twice the next time you join a free coffee shop or hotel WIFI and sit on their open network without protection!<\/p>\n Imagine now that this wasn\u2019t just your personal data, but your company laptop.\u00a0 Imagine one of the various (regularly reported) ransomware attacks that have hit many large enterprises over the last few years.\u00a0 You\u2019re now talking about the loss of customer, supplier and employee details, intellectual property, health records, contracts, order history, all the data that allows that business to function and pay its staff and suppliers.<\/p>\n Security is about layered defence.\u00a0 No single product or vendor solution is going to give you 100% security, but there are several on the market that will give you an incredible amount of protection, with very little cost (compared to the lost productivity, brand destruction and \u201cransom\u201d).\u00a0 All with very little configuration effort, minimal product updates, very little CPU and memory usage on the devices it\u2019s installed on, and no need for an internet connection in order to work (for those times when we\u2019re all back out in the world post-pandemic and travelling again!).<\/p>\n To find out more about these solutions plus how you can offer them to your customers, please get in touch with our technical or sales teams at Ignition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine the situation.\u00a0 On your computer that you\u2019ve spent years taking and collecting photos of your friends, family, pets, cars [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSo, what can you do to try and protect yourself from Ransomware?<\/h2>\n