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The best approach is to educate your employees and other members of your organisation about cyber
security, and put the appropriate controls and best practices in place, including using multi-factor
authentication, implementing zero trust policies, and backing up and encrypting data.

The IBM and Ponemon report found that the use of strong encryption – at least 256 AES, at rest and in
transit – was a top mitigating cost factor. Organisations using strong encryption had an average breach
cost that was 29.4 per cent lower than those using low standard or no encryption.

When data is safely and securely encrypted, any files a cybercriminal gains access to will be worthless
to them without an encryption key. My business, Cryptoloc, has taken this principle even further with our
patented three-key encryption technology, which combines three different encryption algorithms into one
unique multilayer process.

Built for a world without perimeters, our ISO-certified technology has been deployed across multiple
products, including Cryptoloc Secure2Client, which enables users to send fully encrypted documents
directly from Microsoft Outlook.

We’ve recently made Secure2Client available on the Salesforce AppExchange, so that marketing, sales,
commerce, service and IT teams using Salesforce around the world can encrypt the reports they send to
clients and third parties that are sensitive or confidential in nature.

This protects Salesforce users from the potentially catastrophic ramifications of a data breach, while
allowing them to continue using the existing application that their business is built around.

We’ve also rolled out a new Ransomware Recovery capability that empowers users to protect and restore
their data in real-time in the event of an attack, ensuring they never have to pay a costly ransom for the
return of their data.

With Ransomware Recovery, every version of every file a user stores in the Cloud is automatically saved.
If they suspect they’ve been the victim of a ransomware attack, they can simply lock down their Cloud
temporarily to stop the spread of malware; view their files’ audit trails to determine when the attack
occurred; roll back their data to the point before it was corrupted; and then unlock their Cloud.
This ensures users can recover their data as quickly and effectively as possible, minimising costly
disruptions to their business, removing the need for a lengthy and expensive investigation, and ensuring
they never have to pay a cent to a cybercriminal to get back the data that’s rightfully theirs.

Yes, cyber attacks are inevitable – but victimhood isn’t. If you take the right precautions, you can prevent
costly breaches and maintain control of your precious data.

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