Tom Fedro is President of Paragon Software Group Corp., an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of disaster recovery and backup software solutions for small business and mid-market enterprises, along with embedded file system driver technologies used by large manufacturers of consumer devices including Cisco, Belkin, Netgear, Seagate, Western Digital, ASUS, Hewlett Packard, and many others.
Last year, cybercriminals attacked the California-based Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, encrypting files crucial in running the hospital’s operating systems and demanding a ransom to restore them to working order.
