Cloud Collective

12/13/2022

Two years ago, The Resort Municipality of Whistler suffered a complete system ransomware attack that took them offline for almost a year. Yes, offline. Back to paper. The ransomers got the backup and demanded more than the insurance company was willing to pay. Very few businesses today would survive that.

Your cybersecurity strategy must include immutable backups in order to guarantee that a copy of your data is always recoverable, especially from ransomware.

11/30/2022

Did you know that M365 and Google Workspaces do not backup your data? You are responsible for protecting your company's data. Your data stored there has copies, but there are no backups, and you don't have the ability to recover from a certain point in time.

https://cloudcollective.com/why-email-backup-and-archiving-is-important-for-business/

11/08/2018

A bug in what appears to be the Microsoft Windows activation service is causing Windows 10 Pro licenses to be downgraded to Windows 10 Home and then stating that Windows is not activated.

10/24/2018

Donated software and technology resources for Canadian charities, nonprofits & libraries

08/29/2018

West Vancouver is warning thousands of its residents after discovering hackers installed malicious software on district servers used to store personal information. District staff first noticed . . .

08/25/2018

"as it dawned on them that every minute could mean dozens or hundreds more corrupted PCs. Tech workers ran into conference rooms and unplugged machines in the middle of meetings."

Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

06/11/2018

They say every cloud has a silver lining. For the city of Atlanta, it's getting harder and harder to find one after a nasty ransomware infection.

06/07/2018

Donated software and technology resources for Canadian charities, nonprofits & libraries

03/28/2018

Atlanta’s city government has been struggling for days with ransomware that has crippled its computer networks and forced it back to doing business with ink and paper.

03/23/2018

Don't get fooled, learn how to identify a malicious email.

We’re going to explain the basics of Malicious Emails to you today so that you can be aware if something like this happens to you. Hopefully, if you know the signs of phishing and scams and you know what to do, it will stop the chain reaction before it does damage to your online environment.