Proton Dealership IT

🚨 What do you do when the alarm goes off? 🚨 When you get an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) alert, that's the cue for someone to investigate and respond. Let us walk you through the process!

"The ransomware industry is thriving, not losing." “The curve is going to flatten a little bit, which I guess is good news. But a record-breaking year is still a record-breaking year. We’ve also this year, for the first time that I’m aware of, had four eight-figure ransoms paid.”

Tales from the unencrypted! 😱 As Cybersecurity Awareness Month draws to a close, we wanted to share some scary stories about password management, malware, and mishandling data. Happy Halloween from the entire Proton team! 🧛♂️ 🧟♂️ 💀

It's officially been one year since we opened our state-of-the-art Security Operations Center at The Reynolds and Reynolds Company! 🎉 From here, we can detect threats as they arise and respond to them quickly—preventing a 15-minute inconvenience from becoming a 15-day problem. Learn more about our SOC here: https://lnkd.in/gwZpdy_N

It's our final Tech Tip Tuesday of the month! More access means more risk. Users should only have access to the specific data, resources, and applications they need to complete a given task. Make sure you’re limiting who has admin access and removing access when employees leave your dealership.

Let's talk passwords. What separates a good one from a bad one? And how can you create a passphrase that's hard to crack but easy to remember? A good password should be complex, 8-12 characters, and include special symbols. Don't include your birthday, your name, or the name of your spouse, pet, kids, etc. You can create a passphrase based on song lyrics or a sentence that you can memorize. Never share your password with anyone and make sure you're creating a unique password rather than reusing a previous one or utilizing the same password for multiple logins!

"The mobile payment service was ordered to pay out $15 million in damages in a recent settlement."

"The Georgia secretary of state's office said on Wednesday it had fended off a cyberattack aimed at crashing the website the state's voters use to request absentee ballots."

"Penn State has agreed to pay $1.25 million to resolve allegations of failing to meet federal cybersecurity requirements tied to contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD) and NASA."

"I think a lot of the scammers and hackers really realized that the automotive industry is a very ripe sector for attack." In this interview with CBT News, Proton founder Brad Holton talks about the recent increase in cyberattacks and what dealers can do to protect themselves.