You Have Been Hacked - Now What? - By Rick Williams
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You Have Been Hacked – Now What?
Your IT systems are down, your customer files have been stolen. What do you do now? What should you have done to prepare for this moment?
You Have Been Hacked – Now What? is the title of my article on how you must respond to a cyber-attack.
The article is based on real stories of leaders whose companies were shut down by hackers demanding ransom. I interviewed the leaders and spoke with experts on cyber security and the FBI. The article tells their stories and gives you the specific steps you should be taking to prepare for an attack and what to do when you are attached.
My article was published by Wiley in their premier Board Leadership publication. The article is behind a subscription wall, but you can get a PDF copy from my website. This is a MUST READ cyber-security guidebook with a CEO and board of directors’ point of view. Download the PDF version of the article and distribute it to your team.
Today’s reality is that your company’s IT systems have already been penetrated. You just don’t know about it. Many smaller companies have been forced to close by a cyber-attack. Larger companies often pay ransoms and incur major costs and sometimes reputational damage. Learn from the stories of leaders who had to deal with cyber attacks that closed down their IT systems and that were forced to negotiate ransom payments.
Get your copy of You Have Been Hacked – Now What? by clicking HERE.
Baltimore Shot Tower
When I was growing up near Baltimore, my parents would take me to the Inner Harbor where boats unloaded produce for the markets and to Little Italy for a fun Italian supper. We went by a gigantic round brick tower. I remember it just sitting there doing nothing.
Eventually, I had a name for the brick tower – the Shot Tower. Molten lead was dropped 230 feet inside the tower. I will spare you the details of the physics that makes this work, but the liquid lead pulls itself together into a ball while dropping from the top of the tower and solidifies. The hot ball splashes into a cold-water tub at the bottom. A round musket ball is the result.
When the Shot Tower was built in 1828, it was the tallest structure in the United States. Took a while for the Empire State Building to catch up. Charles Carroll of Carrollton laid the Tower’s cornerstone on July 4th, 1828. He was the wealthiest person in the United States and the only surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. There are towers and then there is the Baltimore Shot Tower.
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