Spanking the pirates of corporate security? Try a Plimsoll

Spanking the pirates of corporate security? Try a Plimsoll

Execs don't care to keep things shipshape if they don't see a return.... so let's MAKE them


Column On New Year's Eve 2019, the good ship Travelex struck the iceberg of ransomware. That's not a good metaphor, to be honest: when the SS Titanic hit its frozen nemesis, it had the good taste to unambiguously sink in two hours and 40 minutes. Not so Travelex.


At the time of writing, more than two weeks after the lights went out, our hapless company remains a ghost ship. A better maritime metaphor is more Johnny Depp than Leonardo DiCaprio: a spectral pirate horde has boarded the ship and through the witchcraft of crypto turned its engines to ectoplasm. What of the lifeboats of backup? Whence the rescue fleet of disaster recovery? While the enchantment persists, none ..

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