17/03/2022
Small business owners, please take note. Ransomware viruses are very serious and they're targeting you.
Please take a minute to think, if right this second you lost access to all your files forever. How would that impact your business?
We were recently called in a panic from a local small business that was hit by ransomware. It took out all their files and knowledge and 7 computers had to be rebuilt. Cost them about $6000 to recover, 3 weeks of work lost and 3 days down without staff being able to work. Opportunity and productivity loss was much much more than $6k.
They were super lucky, a manual offsite backup was taken 3 weeks before, only thing that saved them from losing everything. They still lost 3 weeks work and family photos from the local computers.
The virus variant infects 1 person, then crawls through all your files and encrypts them, it then moves to other devices and even your old style backups, making them impossible to read or recover without a password that is so long it's basically unhackable.
Pay the ransomer and you get the password, don't pay and you lose the files forever. Very scary.
Sometimes viruses get through regardless of your protection, YOU NEED A DISASTER RECOVERY OPTION. Mostly likely, this process will also improve your business, creating more profit.
Give Forest IT a call on (02) 9452 2010 or email [email protected]. We are passionate about Small Business.
