Cyber Defense eMagazine December 2019

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Oh, my! PerCSoft’s Irony
By Charles Parker, II; MBA/MSA/JD/LLM/PhD
PerCSoft is a Wisconsin business. The organization provides online data backup services for dental
offices. This operates by placing data in the cloud. They had hundreds of dental offices as clients. The
focus was to secure the patient medical records and other data from the various attacks, including
ransomware.
Irony
The irony of this pwnage has not fallen on deaf ears. In this industry, it’s not often the irony though has
this much depth. The firm’s function was to secure backups for their clients. In certain instances where
there would be an issue with the client’s data, such as with a natural disaster or a successful ransomware
attack. In their marketing materials, the safety from ransomware is emblazoned. The organization, whose
function was to secure data from ransomware had their files encrypted with ransomware, making them
not accessible.