JPC Mitigates Ransomware Risk with BlackFog

Providing managed IT services for small to medium size businesses across multiple verticals has its challenges, particularly when it comes to convincing them that they need to adopt newer technologies to protect against threats such as ransomware.

Some customers are not interested in IT, and they entrust JPC to take all responsibility to install the right products to protect their environments, while others have limited cybersecurity knowledge and are more focussed on saving money.

JPC General Manager and Solution Architect Ronny Johnsen explains, “with new customers we are able to build the right product portfolio to ensure maximum protection from cyberthreats. With legacy customers they often need to be convinced that they need additional layers of security, and unfortunately, they feel that older technologies such as Antivirus and Firewalls are going to offer enough protection. In many cases they don’t believe they are going to be a cyberattack victim until it’s too late.”

For JPC, the threat of ransomware is the most frightening, Ronny continues, “it doesn’t happen often, but it has major impact when it does. Over the years we’ve dealt with different attacks, one notable incident saw the Norwegian Police involved when critical data was lost during a ransomware attack. The attack impacted an old firewall at the customer site and a local on- premise server. A very important database was encrypted, as were the backups.

Recovery from that incident took around 2 years and it involved recovering data from a 12 year old backup. A very costly and frustrating experience that could have been easily mitigated with the right solution in place.”

JPC regularly reviews new technology to ensure they are offering their clients the best solutions…