Ep 3: Ukraine Cyberwar is very real. Do you need to worry?Episode 3 became necessary after I was asked at least a dozen times how to prepare for the potential of a cyberattack resulting from the war in Ukraine. I wasn’t going to podcast about the war as it is already receiving a lot of attention from mainstream media. I decided to do this to have a resource for people asking me questions, and because when I searched up what others were saying I saw that a lot of it was sensationalism.Most of what I share is not new. In fact, read or listen to some of my previous content and you will see I have encouraged a strong password policy, 2fa, and not to click on links numerous times. Yet, there are a few things you should prepare yourself for.Have a listen and leave a comment.Transcript of Ep 3: Ukraine Cyberwar is very real. Do you need to worry?People are the weakest link in any cybersecurity plan. We’re distracted, exhausted, and often unmotivated. It’s time to change the approach used to protect our businesses, technology, identity and data, the human element has to be front and center in the war against data breaches and ransomware attacks, it’s time to educate.Welcome to the human element podcast, visit our website at thehumanelement.net for more content to help you strengthen your awareness of the people problem in cybersecurity. I am Scott Gombar. Owner Nwaj Tech is a client-focused, security-minded proactive IT service provider. Hey everyone, Scott Gombar Here, episode number three. And this isn’t really an episode I want to do. But I feel like I need to do it. And so last week, I did send an email out to all of my clients to help them identify what they need to be aware of. This week, I’m recording this podcast, as it looks like the war between Russia and Ukraine will continue on and they’re announcing for months or years. I really hope it doesn’t. And I really, it’s really sad to see that the entire world is telling Russia to back off. And this one man is just not listening. But this is not a political podcast. So I’m going to back away from the political component. And we’re going to start episode three, Russia, Ukraine, cyberwar is very real. But do you need to worry? So I saw a number of news articles, blog posts, just all kinds of things that discuss how to protect yourself during this war because of the potential of a cyber attack. So let’s start off by addressing and I have been asked as well, which is why I sent the email last week, but even since then, I’ve been asked a few times, again, how do I prepare myself for the potential of a cyber attack during this war, and we all know a lot of these advanced persistent threat groups exist in Russia, these the hacking groups, so they exist in Russia, I believe I saw somewhere that Ukraine was able to shut down Conte, which is one of the groups in Russia. But there are others and, of course, their nation-state-backed groups in Russia, that won’t ever admit to that, but they’re there. We know most of the cyber attacks that occur come, a lot of them come out of Russia is not the only country and there are other players in the game. And then there are some rogue cyber attack groups as well, that don’t have nation-states behind them. So it does happen, and I’m not going to say it won’t happen. Or that, you know, you’re too small, because I don’t believe anybody’s too small to be the victim of a cybercrime. It happens all the time small business owners. And usually, when it happens to a small business owner, they usually end up going out of business within six months. So the threat is very real. However, with this war, the Russian advanced persistent threat groups, and the hacker groups and or, you know,