Hi and welcome to Sabirison's malicious life besides I'm Ren Levy. So, Imagine this. It's Christmas and your family is celebrating the holiday.

Maybe it's snowing outside, but the house is warm and cozy.

The kids are joyfully opening their presents while you and your spouse are sitting on the sofa,

maybe enjoying some hot spicy wine. And then your phone rings. Your phone rings. Hello. It's the CEO.

It's the CEO.

Damn.

A phone call from the CEO on Christmas, that can't be good, and it isn't.

Five minutes later, you kiss the kids goodbye as you leave the house,

rushing back to the office to handle a ransomware attack.

There goes the holiday.

The scenario I've described is much more common than we usually think it is.

Last month in November of 2021, Cyber Reason, our show's sponsor, released a special report

titled Organizations At Risk.

Ransomware attacks don't take holidays.

A report focusing on the threat of ransomware attacks during weekends and holidays.

According to that research, 86% of responders said they missed a holiday or a weekend activity

because of a ransomware attack.

Here's a real world example from just a few months back.

Kaseya is an IT solutions company catering mainly to manage service providers,

MSPs for short, that is its customers are themselves

companies that provide IT management services to other smaller businesses.

On July 2nd, 2021, just two days before Independence Day,

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