Karpel’s new security awareness training, and ransomware prevention

Why Security Awareness Training? Ransomware, That's Why...

Since September 2013, several crypto-ransomware strains are attacking end-users and it's rapidly getting worse. You cannot just rely on your filters anymore, you also have to train your end-users and create a human firewall.

Here is what some real systems admins said after they got hit with ransomware due to employee error:

1. "Just Paid Cryptolocker - We got infected, found our backups did not work and we had to pay."
2. "Went through this 2 weeks ago - We had backups, but that meant we lost a day and a half."
3. "CryptoDefense deleted my Shadow Volume Copies - that really caused a major problem."
4. "Cryptolocker SUCKS - This really is the nastiest thing on the web at the moment."
5. "Ouch. This stinks - Our comptroller opened the attachment, and her PC got infected. The phishing email passed through hosted email filtering, our 'advanced' firewall and the AV on the workstation."

In 2017 Karpel will be rolling out Security Awareness Training and more ransomware prevention tools to all CIO level Managed Service Clients.

Contact us to find out how Karpel can help protect your organization from ransomware due to employee error.