Scott Alldridge

Please pay, you know,

50 Bitcoin to, you know, whatever, 100 Bitcoin or whatever.

And so then in a couple of cases, we've been pulled, you know, pulled into ex post facto of, you know, ransomware.

They're ready to settle and negotiate because they didn't have proper backups and some of the things you should have in place.

And they said, oh, call our 1-800 number to our call center and they'll settle up the transaction.

So they're so sophisticated.

They actually not only have franchises, they have call centers.

Wow.

And that's why they want to be paid in crypto, too, because they can't they can't trace the dollars.

You know, the FBI or Interpol can't trace them.

Yeah.

So those ones, what can you really do?

There's nothing you can do unless you go into where I talk about my book.

We talk about zero trust, which is kind of a methodology.

It's about layers of security.

But one of the big prerequisites to this method of zero trust to enhance your cybersecurity is you assume breach.

Because we look at all these big companies, even the casinos, they spend millions of dollars on cybersecurity.

They have the best and the brightest people, guys that are making half a million bucks a year.

expertise, all the tools, and yet they still get hacked.

So the idea of assume breach, if you're a smaller business and they're going downstream and the threat actors are going for very small businesses, you can be a business with 500K or a couple million dollars in revenue and they're going after you.