The Waident Blog

These are some thoughts from John Wooden, legendary coach of 10 UCLA Bruins NCAA Championship teams, which included notable NBA Hall of Fame players, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, and Gail Goodrich. “I believe in the basics: attention to, and perfection of, tiny details that might be commonly overlooked. They may seem trivial, perhaps even laughable to those who don’t understand, but they aren’t. They are …

Company leaders often think that a cyber attack will never happen to them because their company and its data are of no interest to hackers.  The list of companies below shared that point of view. But not anymore because they have made the list of the biggest ransomware attacks of 2019.  A ransomware attack will most likely, at some point, happen to you. The more …

Ransomware.  The fact that only top firms make headlines when they are hit may lead some in Main-street businesses to believe that they aren’t targets for hackers. Somehow, non-Fortune 500™ companies are immune from attack because they are small fish.  Of course, no one wants to get hit. But, its intelligent people who are worried about it. Savvy people who are informed about it. Prudent …

It’s no surprise that the state of cybersecurity is constantly changing. Criminals will be criminals. Knowing this does not make it any less annoying to think that just when you have addressed one vulnerability, another one (or two) opens up. It can drive a business leader, who wants to just serve clients, grow, and enjoy work, nuts. The long list of threats just keeps growing …

I wrote a blog article a while ago about how sh*t happens. Sh*tty things will happen no matter how hard you try to avoid them, so the important thing is how you deal with them when they become reality. Well, some cybersecurity sh*t happened recently and it was a great learning experience for us. Luckily, it was in a controlled situation so we were never …