In this class, Ricardo Paredes, IT manager at Pirani, teaches us the Main Cybersecurity Threats and Trends like Ransomware and how to avoid them, the action plan against a successful ransomware attack, Phishing and how it has catastrophic effects on organizations, and how to make good management about this cyber risks with Pirani.

Main Cybersecurity: Threats and Trends

Ransomware is malicious software or malware that prevents you from accessing your computer files, systems, or networks and demands you pay a ransom for their return. Ransomware attacks can cause costly disruptions to operations and the loss of critical information and data.

How to avoid it?

• Keep operating systems, software, and applications current and up to date. 
• Ensure anti-virus and anti-malware solutions are set to update and run regular scans automatically.
• Back up data regularly and double-check that those backups were completed.
• Secure your backups. Ensure they are not connected to the computers and networks they are backing up.
• Create a continuity plan if your business or organization is the victim of a ransomware attack.

Action Plan against  a success Ransomware Attack

• Check the network
• Shut-down
• Download Network Share
• Remediate Encryption
• Prevent
• Report  to authorities

Phishing

It is a cybercrime in which a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone, or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking, credit card details, and passwords.

How phishing has catastrophic effects on organizations:

• Direct financial losses
• Damage to reputation
• Loss of customers
• Loss of organization value

An organization is only as secure as the people in it.

How to make good management about these cyber risks?

• Information Assets
• Controls
• Action Plans