• Neil@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m the IT Security Analyst for a medium sized company. We had a ransomware breach and they stole a ton of data. It happened right before I was about to go to bed after a long day.

    36 hours later, I was finally able to get a few hours of sleep. The whole ordeal took about 2 dedicated weeks to resolve.

    It was a nightmare and I still wake up in a panicked sweat on the anniversary of it every year. Good news is, all of the tools they were telling me we couldn’t afford were bought and to this day I get very little pushback when it comes to the security budget.

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      1 year ago

      all of the tools they were telling me we couldn’t afford were bought and to this day I get very little pushback when it comes to the security budget.

      “Would you like a 10k preventative bill, or a 80k after-the-fact bill?”