Habits are hard to change. It takes discipline and continuous perseverance.
When was the last time you changed something that increased your revenue? Your health. Or your safety and security.
Change and managing change whether in the corporate ranks of your Fortune 500 Global Enterprise or back in your own personal life at home is a true challenge.
Before you even thought about what you needed to change in your business or your own life, you probably have encountered one of two experiences:
- Pain
- Joy
Which one of these two experiences have you recently encountered?
You see, our human behavior is quite predictable and it is usually one of these two motivators in life that will change your behavior.
Educating yourself and others you care about requires that you sometimes utilize one of these motivators in order to initiate new change. Let’s begin with “Pain”.
These realities are exactly what the evil in our world today continues to prey on. Those individuals who are unable or unwilling to change, and to manage change in their lives.
“It is really very simple. In the foreseeable future, we will not function as a global society without the Net and the immense digital resources and information assets of our society. The addiction is established—commerce, government, education, and our neighbors offer no option other than to require that we rely upon digital information in making decisions. But we will not function successfully if the war for control of those assets is lost. The battlefield, however, is the one on which trust is to be gained or lost—trust in the information we use, trust in the infrastructures that support us, and trust in the decisions we make in a digital world.” Page 19 - Achieving Digital Trust | The New Rules For Business At The Speed Of Light - Author Jeffrey Ritter
In your own digital life, these habits may be as simple as using the same password on multiple accounts that each of us rely on, each day or each week of our lives. You know who you are.
As the continued use of “Ransomware” remains so pervasive across the globe and is utilized by so many criminal gangs and nation states, each one of us must consider our personal and business habits.
At home and at work.
It is now time to change. It is time to change your digital habits so you may avoid the pain and continue to have even more joy in your life.
Take action.
Start a new habit now of changing the weak password on your bank accounts. Make it 20 characters, and make it random. Easily addressed when you "Use a Password Manager App". Then set a reminder to change it on January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year.
“Microsoft warns that ransomware threat actor Storm-0501 has recently switched tactics and now targets hybrid cloud environments, expanding its strategy to compromise all victim assets.
The threat actor first emerged in 2021 as a ransomware affiliate for the Sabbath ransomware operation. Later they started to deploy file-encrypting malware from Hive, BlackCat, LockBit, and Hunters International gangs. Recently, they have been observed to deploy the Embargo ransomware.
Storm-0501's recent attacks targeted hospitals, government, manufacturing, and transportation organizations, and law enforcement agencies in the United States.” —BleepingComputer
After you have successfully accomplished this simple task in your business and in your own personal life, remember:
The “Pain” of doing this simple “Change Management” step in your life, will help bring you continued “Joy” for so many years to come…:)
Godspeed!
