Stay Cyber Safe: What Every CEO Should Know About Cybersecurity is your jargon-free guide to understanding the cyber threats you face each day. In this brief book, authors JT Kostman and Brian Gallagher introduce CodeLock™ – a revolutionary approach to cybersecurity that provides what the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) describes as being able to "stop the most sophisticated criminal malware." They will also offer you affordable, practical, and actionable advice on steps you can take today to safeguard your data assets – and keep your company from becoming the next victim of cybercrime to be featured on the nightly news.
Imagine this: You come into the office on Thursday morning, grab a cup of coffee and sit down at your desk to check your email. You log in, and you wait. And wait. Nothing happens for a few seconds. Then your screen turns bright blue. A pop-up banner appears with some devasting news: You've been hacked.
Welcome to the hell known as ransomware.
Now you have a choice to make. Either you can pay the cyber-criminals $150,000 in bitcoin by the end of the day or all your data will be destroyed. All your confidential information and private emails will be released onto the internet. Your customers' personally identifiable information will be sold on the black market. The icing on the cake? The hackers will report this incident to the press.
You can pay the thieves who are holding your data hostage, but there are no guarantees. They may still carry through on their threats or just ask for more cash.
If you don't think it could happen to you, think again.
Regardless of your industry, or how many employees you have, if you lead a small or midsized business there is a 48% chance you will become the victim of cybercrime sometime within the next year. That's pretty much the flip of a coin – and it just keeps getting worse.
The approaches and methodologies in this book are crucial for anyone looking to protect themselves or their business by mitigating the risk of cybersecurity threats and ransomware.
