Topic:
Understanding your IT Vulnerabilities
Imagine the scenario – on a crisp Monday morning, workstation ready to go, you sit down at your computer, ready to tackle some important tasks. Steam curls from a fresh cup of coffee as you enter your credentials when BAM. It hits you. Instead of the usual opening page, your screen is plastered in red. Skulls and crossbones dance tauntingly across the monitor with a message from hackers that demands bitcoin and threatens you will never see your precious data again.
What do you do? Who do you call? Where is your data backed up, and is it accessible? Most importantly – how do you provide business continuity in the midst of a system availability crisis.
Prevention is the best medicine. Let’s learn how to prepare and improve our chances to avoid this type of mess altogether. And, if you happen to encounter the inevitable, you’ll know what to do.
Bio:
Johnny Mays is a CPA, IT advisory, and cybersecurity expert with a worldview gleaned from 10+ years of progressive experience—seven in public accounting, three with a multinational technology company, and some in tangible sales. As a professional, I leverage my background to consult clients in my specializations, which include ITGC, IT audit, SOX, the COSO framework, risk assessment, change management, system development, physical and environmental security, computer operations, network security, and data privacy.
I am passionate about developing best practices for safeguarding organizations from cyber hacking and internal and external threats. I actively speak in public forums about these topics to a wide variety of audiences. In the ever-evolving global marketplace of today, and with ceaselessly changing technology, it is more important than ever to maintain a competitive edge, and I am the person to help your organization do just that.