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5 Phishing facts in 2023 every business owner should know

Online Computers

In a phishing scam, cybercriminals impersonate trustworthy institutions and send an email asking for personal information, or they instruct recipients to click on a link which would download and install malware onto their device. But cybersecurity is not just your IT department’s responsibility; it is every employee’s.

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Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery

Pure Storage

For example, a targeted ransomware attack on an ecommerce site’s third-party payment portal wouldn’t need to trigger a system-wide recovery effort for the entire application and every database. What Sort of Data Needs to Be Recovered? How long it takes to recover from a disaster can depend on: How quickly the event itself is resolved (e.g.,