SecurityMagazine.com put up an interesting article this week that includes their TOP 7 cybersecurity predictions for 2021. Besides them stealing one of our marketing tricks (ahem 7 predictions? That's my bag! ::shakes fist::) it's worth a read. 

Ransomware is a huge threat right now. It's everywhere you look. Business after business is falling to the plight. We've been covering this for years. If you're expecting that to change for the better anytime soon, I've got some bad news for you...

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, millions of Americans are out of work. Unemployment is at the highest point it has been in years. Things are bad out there for a lot of people.

It's tough to write about Covid-19. It's tough to work in this mixed up, messed up Covid world. Things aren't easy for anybody. But at least we're all in this together.

Securty7 Networks has PERSONALLY seen an uptick in ransomware attacks, and we're not alone. Security professionals around the globe are facing the same issues.

Your day couldn't be going worse. Someone in the office clicked on a link they shouldn't have. Now the entire network is compromised with Ransomware. Your cybersecurity hygiene practices weren't the best, to begin with. You haven't been doing what you should be doing. Your data wasn't backed up, and you can't restore your end-points. The only option left is to pay the attacker's ransom and unlock your data. Things couldn't get worse, right?

Not every cyber-attack is a large scale data breach or ransomware attack. Even the average computer user is liable to encounter some sort of cyber-kerfluffle during their lifetime.