I've only been involved in one incident, I was called in by a friend whose chiropractor got hit. Unpatched Windows 2008 Server whose practice was not behind a firewall, running a backup regimen that not only was untested but did not work. He actually had two or three ransomware strains on his server! Ancient server OS, not properly maintained, etc. The only thing that saved his bacon was that his medical practice software was mostly either online or backed up recently enough that the vendor's backup was intact.
I could print money down here consulting on backups and data recovery except (A) I don't want to put in the effort mainly because (B) they don't want to pay close to market rates for my services. This chowderhead objected to paying me $40 an hour for my services! The report that I prepared for him would have run him a minimum of probably $300 just for the report, much less my analysis time.
Let him burn, I say. This town is a mess, and the further I stay away from its IT structure, the better off I am.
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Date: 2021-11-10 05:26 am (UTC)I've only been involved in one incident, I was called in by a friend whose chiropractor got hit. Unpatched Windows 2008 Server whose practice was not behind a firewall, running a backup regimen that not only was untested but did not work. He actually had two or three ransomware strains on his server! Ancient server OS, not properly maintained, etc. The only thing that saved his bacon was that his medical practice software was mostly either online or backed up recently enough that the vendor's backup was intact. I could print money down here consulting on backups and data recovery except (A) I don't want to put in the effort mainly because (B) they don't want to pay close to market rates for my services. This chowderhead objected to paying me $40 an hour for my services! The report that I prepared for him would have run him a minimum of probably $300 just for the report, much less my analysis time. Let him burn, I say. This town is a mess, and the further I stay away from its IT structure, the better off I am.