Small World Big Data’s Mike Matchett and ITWN’s Warren Avery present six new hand-selected hype-free technical articles from all around the IT world. This week Warren and Mike interview another great guest author – Mark Sangster about Ransomware. Mark’s got a new book out on the topic so he knows all the dirty hacker secrets.

* Paying Ransomware – Mark tells you why paying up can put you in jail * IT Spending Traps – IT has spending traps? No way…* Outsourcing Backup – No more excuses! Backup is now a utility service* Cyber DR – Combining IT acronyms for security and resilience* Cloud Costing – Clouds can be like gym memberships* Data Architecture – Cause data needs a building too?

Question of the week – Tell us your sad, soggy subscription nightmares – IT or otherwise. At what point did your cheap subscription start to seem really expensive?Share your comments here with us and I will put them in next week’s episode.

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