Stop 90% of Ransomware Attacks with Basic Cyber Hygiene

Podcast: The Backup Wrap-Up · W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup)

Opublikowano: 2026-05-25

Basic cyber hygiene — patch management, password management, and MFA — is responsible for stopping roughly 90% of the ransomware attacks that could hit your organization. This episode is the overview: what those three things are, why they matter, and what happens when you skip them. WannaCry infected over 200,000 systems worldwide. A patch existed. People just hadn't applied it. Rackspace lost an entire business line — not because the attack was sophisticated, but because a workaround gave them false confidence and they delayed a critical patch. These aren't edge cases. They're the rule. Dr. Mike Saylor (Black Swan Cybersecurity) and Pr...