A wide variety of questions have come in from listeners over the last few weeks. The list is so good we have a whole episode devoted just to answering listener questions. At least one of these will likely apply to you if not several.
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All of those ransomware outbreaks we have been dealing with since last year were overshadowed this past week by WannaCry. This has been called called the most destructive attack ever. The most concerning part is that was how bad it was but the US wasn't hit that hard. When these kinds of things happen it is always a good idea to review what you learned from the outbreak and any necessary changes you need to make to protect you from this one happening to you. The is the topic of the day. What should we learn from WannaCry?
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You may not even know about all the applications and support logins that vendors use on your applications, systems, and networks. Vendors may set up admin passwords and share them with their whole staff to support you. If they have unlimited access to the systems out there and the usernames and passwords never expire or log off automatically that is certainly not secure. How do you manage all of those? If there are things that automatically log in and run, what about those?
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April has had three more OCR resolution announcements. That's a total of 7 cases for $14.3m in 2017 so far. When we covered resolutions recently I kept waiting for another one to come out and gave up. Then, BAM, three in a row!
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