As part of its Secure Communities Scheme, leading security specialist, Burg-Wächter UK, has pledged to support the Rainy Day Trust – the only charity specifically supporting the home improvement industry – to supply security equipment to independent trades people who fall victim to tool theft in its joint campaign with Toolstation.
Louise Ferrett, Threat Intelligence Analyst at Searchlight Security has provided the following context around the Yanluowang ransomware gang’s cyberattack of Cisco:
Following news that a cyber-attack on a major IT provider of the NHS, Advanced, has been confirmed as a ransomware attack (NHS IT supplier held to ransom by hackers - BBC News), Erfan Shadabi, Cybersecurity Expert at comforte AG, explains further about attacks on healthcare providers:
Healthcare providers and related corporations – such as third-party service providers- are among the most highly regulated organizations in any market. The reason is obvious: they collect and handle some of the most sensitive personal data about an individual. The report that a major IT provider of the NHS has experienced a ransomware attack should trigger alarm bells within any similar provider. The best way to mitigate such cyberattacks is to safeguard sensitive records such as medical information through a data-centric approach. Data-centric methods such as tokenization replace sensitive data elements with tokens that maintain the analytic value of the data while obscuring the actual sensitive information itself. It becomes non-identifying and therefore worthless in the hands of threat actors, while remaining fully workable by the enterprise.
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