{"id":3368,"date":"2016-09-21T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2016-09-21T14:05:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T18:05:19","slug":"paying-the-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/09\/21\/paying-the-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying the Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paying the Ransomware<\/p>\n<p>I learned today where one bitcoin equals 600 US dollars as of 21-Sep-16. When a ransomware Incident occurs, one of the first few question does come up what will it take to get back into operation?\u00a0 The first I would think is how did it happen?\u00a0 Depending on the impact of the Ransom it was in the case of the Hollywood Presbyterian it was cheaper to pay the 29 bitcoins(in today\u2019s bitcoin value equals 17K in USD) to get back up and running faster.\u00a0 The cost of trying to fix it on your own could have been higher in man and machine hours.\u00a0 In this case patient information was involved and systems were down so it me it made business sense to resolved the incident.\u00a0 The question what can be done to prevent the next Ransomware incident from occurring?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/87431-the-ransomware-dilemma-is-paying-up-a-good-idea\">http:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/87431-the-ransomware-dilemma-is-paying-up-a-good-idea<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hollywoodpresbyterian.com\/default\/assets\/File\/20160217%20Memo%20from%20the%20CEO%20v2.pdf\">http:\/\/hollywoodpresbyterian.com\/default\/assets\/File\/20160217%20Memo%20from%20the%20CEO%20v2.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paying the Ransomware I learned today where one bitcoin equals 600 US dollars as of 21-Sep-16. When a ransomware Incident occurs, one of the first few question does come up what will it take to get back into operation?\u00a0 The first I would think is how did it happen?\u00a0 Depending on the impact of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715219],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-03-it-administrative-controls","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}