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/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.