Emerge and our cybersecurity partners have recently seen an increase in Malware and Phishing attacks. This appears to be a part of a growing trend across the country. At this time, we are asking our customers to be extra vigilant.
Ask the following questions about your organization to help mitigate cyberattacks:
- Backups: Do we back up all critical information? Are the backups stored off site? Have we tested our ability to restore from backup during an incident?
- Incident Response: Do we have an incident response plan and have we exercise it?
- Business Continuity: Are we able to sustain business operations without access to certain systems? For how long? Have we tested this?
- Risk Analysis: Have we conducted a cybersecurity risk analysis of the organization?
- Staff Training: Have we trained our staff on cybersecurity best practices?
- Account Protections: Have we implemented multi-factor authentication and are we minimizing account privileges?
- Vulnerability Scanning and Patching: Have we implemented regular scans of our networks and systems? Do we have an automated patch management system?
- Network Traffic Monitoring: Are we monitoring the network traffic crossing the boundary of critical networks?
- Application Whitelisting: Do we only allow approved programs to run our networks?
Previous Emerge Blog Posts:
Is Your Business Backed Up and Secure?
Understanding Ransomware
If you have further questions or need assistance answering any of these questions, please reach out to your Emerge at 859-746-1030.