One of the great modern rules of thumb: Leave the mainframe. Get PWNED!!!
On 6/18/2019 5:24 PM, Mark Regan wrote:
From the article: ... Fuchs said the company, which he founded in 1977, originally had its own IBM mainframe that served AMCA’s purposes “well for many years.” But changes in technology (most notably, the shift to cloud computing) made it clear, he said, that continued reliance on the office system “would not be tenable in the long term. "After years of planning, Fuchs wrote, the company moved its systems to a cloud service provider in 2015. The company invested over a million dollars on, among other precautions, the hiring of “outside IT consultants” to ensure AMCA’s data security protocols reflected “current technological standards.” ... https://gizmodo.com/massive-cyber-heist-bankrupts-medical-debt-collector-1835630684
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