Kronos Cloud hit by ransomware attack and warns of data breach

Security Breach

Kronos Private Cloud, a HR management platform, has suffered a ransomware attack which puts many of its high-profile customers’ data at risk.

Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), Kronos’ parent company, said the attack will bring down the service for “several weeks” and advised customers to “evaluate and implement alternative business continuity protocols related to the affected UKG solutions”.

UKG became aware of the attack late on Saturday, December 11, due to...

14 December 2021 | Industries

Stephen Boyer, CTO, BitSight: Risk quantification and ransomware

Data Breach

If 2021 stood out for one thing in the cybersecurity industry, it would have to be the rise in security breaches. From lone ransomware incidents on small, digitising businesses to US government data breaches through SolarWinds software, the pandemic instilled a before unseen vitality into cyber criminals and bad actors.

BitSight, currently celebrating its 10th year as a company, works with more than 2,100 customers to provide risk management solutions to half a million...

30 November 2021 | Cloud Computing

Ben Jenkins, ThreatLocker: Dealing with the scourge of ransomware

A padlock on a shed.

Threatlocker was founded in 2017. What was it set up to do?

Endpoint security, and we do that by following zero trust. Now, the problem is zero trust is not the best name to describe things. And it's kind of this industry buzzword or buzz term that's come out that we kind of had to stick to using because it’s what people know. But we don't like to describe things as zero trust. 

Essentially, we do it through four main pillars. So we have our application...

26 November 2021 | Cyber Security & Cloud Expo

Ransomware mitigation sees focus from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

Ransomware mitigation strategies have become an increasingly important aspect of major cloud providers’ offering following the pandemic.

In recent weeks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have all published articles recommending mitigation tactics and best practice in the event of a ransomware attack.

A ransomware attack occurs when company files are encrypted and money is demanded in exchange for the decryption key and the maintained privacy...

16 September 2021 | AWS

Why cybersecurity isn’t cybersecure without detection and recovery

Anyone responsible for data security who doesn’t get a shiver down their spine when they read the about yet another high-profile ransomware attack in the news is either doing something very right, or something very wrong.  

The danger of falling victim to a cybersecurity issue is getting greater as the volume of attacks continues to rise and bad actors become increasingly sophisticated. Interpol has highlighted how Covid-19 affected both the number and nature of...

11 February 2021 | Security