Welcome to this week's Black Arrow Cyber Tip Tuesday. This week - how ransomware is evolving and how it is getting even more important for firms and individuals to take this threat seriously

Welcome to this week's Black Arrow Cyber Tip Tuesday.

This week we are talking about the ways that ransomware attacks are changing and getting even more nasty, and how  firms and individuals will need to strengthen their approach to protecting themselves.

Traditionally the main defence against ransomware was having backups of your data, such that you could revert to a good copy of your data if you got infected, now though criminals are going after your backup data too, especially if these backups are stored on your networks, so it is now even more critical to have offline copies of your data that cannot themselves be infected.

The other significant development seen recently is now not only are criminals holding your data to ransom they are also now threatening to release your confidential data to the public.

Many firms will not survive the damage caused to their reputation if customers and investors see their private and confidential data is available for the world to see.

The only way to defend against this is to avoid being a victim in the first place, and this includes the principle of defence in depth using multiple layers of protection and different controls.

Talk to us today to ensure you are doing all the things you should be doing to keen yourself safe from ransomware.