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How To Heal from Hackers

8/20/2019

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Getting hacked is no joke - but how does a company come back from something to terrible? 

Did you know that 14 million businesses are at risk of being hacked in just the United States alone? Isn't that terrifying? Getting hacked is no longer just reserved for the multi-billion corporations and the everyday multi-millionaire. Being hacked is becoming almost commonplace for so many small businesses that it's become truly alarming. These nightmare disasters can be prevented, but sometimes the attacks come before protection can be put into place. What can you do to recover from these disasters and get back to work as normal?

First off, contact us. We are here to protect all of our clients and future clients from these horrible situations and provide 24/7/365 protection from any hacker attack. We will be there for you whenever this might happen and prevent it from actually happening. But if you have been attacked, or even if you just want the knowledge of what to do just in case - follow this helpful list of how to get back to business as quickly as possible. 

   1.   Contain the Damage 
  • Run an antivirus program 
  • Reset all of your passwords
  • Remove any corrupted and compromised files 

     2.    Alert Your Web Hosting Service
  • Give them all the information about the breach that you can 
  • They will recommend what can be done to remove the malware and how to get your systems back up and running 

     3.   Inform your customers 
  • This has to be done by law. 47 of our states and Washington DC each has their own cyber laws that deal with these situations, so make yourself aware of what your state's policies are in times of disaster like this. 
  • Provide each of your customers with a written explanation of what has happened, what's going on, and how you are working on fixing it. Do not hide this incident from them. 
  • Let them know exactly what information was compromised and how this will affect them

     4.   Get Legal Advice 
  • Know the up to date cyber laws for your state dealing with situations like this. 
  • Depending on what industry your clients are in you may have a lot of other hoops to jump through and different ways you will have to deal with this situation. Be aware of your client's contracts and how they expect you to deal with this situation. 
  • Think about getting insurance for times like this. This insurance will cover legal and forensic fees. It will cover expenses related to customer outreach and cover customer credit monitoring. It will also cover the costs of civil litigation and class action costs if it comes to this

     5.   Transparency 
  • Make everyone aware of this situation that needs to know. 
  • Be very open about the attacks to others in the industry so they know what to expect 
  • Don't hide what has happened and continue to provide updates to your clients and customers

     6.   Start Again
  • Once you have started to put out fires, begin to rebuild your website and your reputation 
  • Replace computer data, files, and apps with a clean backup 
  • Keep updating your clientele the closer you get to getting back to business 

     7.   Security
  • Obviously, the protection you had when you were attacked didn't work. It's time to update. 
  • Didn't have actual security? Now it's time to spend the time and money to prevent this from ever happening again 
  • Create layers of security to protect your information from now on​

The amount of work it takes to clean up this damage can be very extensive. It is possible to recover from but can be very costly to your bank account and your reputation. Turn to Netcertpro to prevent anything like this from happening to you and your business. We are just a phone call away. Don't wait before it's too late! ​
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The Space Race Continues!

8/2/2019

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The Apollo 11 Mission gave us so many incredible things, along with landing on the moon. But do you know what other incredible technological advances this amazing mission created and how many of these creations are still used today?

With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing still fresh in our minds - it inspired this blog to dig in a little deeper. After all the amazing tributes, videos, art installations, gatherings, museum pieces, and beautiful stories told in remembrance of Apollo 11 there is still a little bit more behind the picture that a lot of people don't realize. The reminder of the 50th anniversary is a reminder that this whole mission was extremely unlikely to happen as soon as it did, and on many levels, it almost didn't happen. But at its amazing core, it rapidly developed the pace of technology and development. Things needed to be fixed now, and they were. This mission and the Apollo journey also caused a dramatic shift in electronics and computer systems. But thanks to these all-new innovations three brave men made it to the moon, thanks to the brilliant minds left behind on earth. But, did you know a lot of that technology that was sitting at the command station or in the lunar lander is still used to this day? So many incredible and important gadgets and things were created by this amazing mission and we have better technology today because of it!

The Apollo missions were responsible for the creation of the fly-by-wire, mainly influenced and created out of a suggestion made by Ohio Astronaut Neil Armstrong. This was a huge new upgrade that went from controlling machines by pedals and sticks by their pilots moved into a total digital computer to control it. The fly-by-wire is used on basically every commercial airplane today! The whole system of controlling the rocket launches and any machines went from mechanical control to digital control, which bled into everyday technology not long after man was on the moon. This was the birth of computer-controlled cars. These missions also lead to the birth of the integrated circuit, the technology that was the birth of the microchip. This technology did away manual assembly of separate transistors. They are used in nearly all electronic equipment today. The integrated circuits were developed to create a small computer system that was very light an didn't take up a lot of room, nor did it require massive power. Thus, your laptop was born. Intel Corp, your laptops, and blackberries, and cellphones may never have been invented without the Apollo team. 

Due strongly to the horrible disaster fire of the Apollo 1 mission, more fire-resistant materials were created especially for the Apollo 11 mission. These materials were made out of a substance called PBI. The Apollo 11 mission was more focused on in-flight suits and these new suits were used for all kinds of space exploration and was instrumental for space flight. You'll find it today in firefighters suits and motorsports for race suits. But DuPont started using a material called Nomex after the use of PBI which is being used in most race suits and was found in the 21 layers that made up the space missions during the Apollo 11 missions. The company that created the spacesuits for the Apollo 11 Crew, and that still build them today, are the same company that builds the lighter than air components found in the Goodyear Blimp.

Special heat coating was created for the Apollo 11 mission to enter safety back into the atmosphere lead to a spin-off product to create heat resistant paints and foams for planes. This lead to the creation of the first epoxy.

Portable self-contained drills that were made for the Apollo program specifically to drill at least 10 feet into the lunar surface to take samples back home had an incredibly strong lightweight core to it. Black and Decker took this new technology to create a mini vacuum cleaner. You might know it as a little something called a Dust Buster!

Other Amazing inventions and inspirations  from the Apollo 11 and Apollo missions also include:
  • The Solar Panel
  • Athletic shoes
  • Heart Defibrillator
  • CAT Scanner
  • Cordless tools
  • Ear thermometer (its original technology was used to monitor the birth of stars)
  • Invisible braces
  • Joysticks
  • Memory Foam
  • Satellite TV
  • Scratch-resistant lenses
  • Smoke detectors
  • Swim suite (created from a material to cause no drag in space, Speedo took this same material and made their fastest speedo ever)
  • Bridge Shock Absorbers
  • Velcro
  • Vacuum sealed foods
  • Shock Absorbent sneaker soles
Who knew that when these brilliant minds gave us the moon they also gave us the key to some of the most important technology of all time! The Apollo missions were the greatest engineering and scientific feats of all time. They are still yet to be rivaled. We hope you enjoyed the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and enjoyed learning about how much the landing still affects us today!!
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