A Global Pandemic: Cyber Threats and Remote Employees

So if there is some sort of a natural disaster or a hurricane in Jamaica you know that your data is safe in a data centre in Minnesota or something and your backups need to be encrypted and it needs to be audited once every quarter… Click To Tweet

Brian is a computer scientist, angel investor and entrepreneur. Brian has started or co-founded five successful companies, been a part of successful exits, has been successful in VC/angel fundraising on both sides of the table. He currently is chairman and CEO of Gillware which provides emergency IT services to clients suffering from data related disasters, and offers advice and consulting to avoid corporate data disasters.

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Show Notes

“Passwords are like underwear: don’t let people see it, change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.” – Chris Pirillo

Undoubtedly this pandemic has created a myriad of opportunities to be leveraged, most of which are online. Equally available, are the increased risks that are associated with having a greater online presence.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Brian Gill to talk about mitigating against the risks of cyber-attacks.

Here is a snippet of what Brian shared:

“This is the most important tip to protect yourself from ransomware, which is a devastating thing for a business. It can put you all the way out of business. And that is you need to have your data backed up by a professional. If you’re a smaller business with less than 30 or 40 employees, you probably need, if you don’t already have what’s called a managed service provider or an MSP and you need to hire that MSP in a way where you know exactly how they’re going to back your data up and it needs to be off Network. It needs to be in a different geography ideally. So if there is some sort of a natural disaster or a hurricane in Jamaica you know that your data is safe in a data centre in Minnesota or something and your backups need to be encrypted and it needs to be audited once every quarter once maybe twice a year. You need to pay your MSP to download those backups and test them to make sure that they’re current that they have all of your critical data.”

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