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Cybersecurity News
The average American has had their personal data stolen or exposed at least 4 times in 2019, according to new research published by Interest Research. - The finance vertical is suffering from a 238% increase in cyberattacks during COVID- 19 pandemic according to research published by VMware Carbon Black Security. - Nebraska Medical Center of Omaha, NE notified 1311 patients that their PHI was exposed after an employee illegally accessed - Sophos Security reports following on ransomware: o...
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Client ransomware attacks up 37% in third quarter
Reported ransomware attack notifications against Beazley PLC clients in the third quarter of this year increased 37% compared with a year ago, and small businesses were particularly vulnerable, the insurer said in a report issued Thursday. Cyber criminals often use information technology vendors to pursue their activity, according to the report. Of the ransomware incidents reported, 24% were confirmed to be caused by a vendor managed service provider, according to the Beazley Breach Insights...
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NeuShield Protects IT Managed Services Remote Techs Customers Following Ransomware Attack
FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeuShield , which developed the world's first mirror shielding technology to instantly recover data and files when other malware defenses fail, today announced it's partnering with IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) Remote Techs to provide ransomware protection to the company and its growing list of managed service customers. Ransomware has grown to become one of the most significant problems in cybersecurity, and anyone with important data...
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Summer of Ransomware: Security Attacks Hit Cities in Texas, Florida
There's a Texas-sized ransomware problem brewing on the heels of similar incidents in Florida. The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) on Friday revealed that more than 20 entities, mostly smaller local governments in the state, were impacted by a ransomware attack. "On the morning of August 16, 2019, more than 20 entities in Texas reported a ransomware attack," the Texas DIR said in an update Saturday evening that put the total number of affected agencies at 23. State government...
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Cybersecurity News
Cybersecurity Update - Check Point Security published report warning that hackers are spoofing Medical Leave forms in email phishing campaigns that have embedded malware. - VT San Antonia Aerospace of Texas notified the federal government that 1.5 terabytes of sensitive data was stolen as result of a Maze ransomware attack. - Kaspersky Software published report warning that a hacking group named “Cycidek” is sending out phishing emails that are embedded with USBCulprit malware which copies...
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Xerox apparent victim of Maze attack
It appears that Xerox is among the victims of Maze ransomware attackers, if screenshots posted by the ransomware’s operators are legitimate. The hackers pilfered more than 100GB of information and are threatening to publish it, according to a report in BleepingComputer, which cited the ransom note as saying, “After the payment the data will be removed from our disks and decryptor will be given to you, so you can restore all your files.” The report said the prolific group had posted 10...
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Ransomware gang publishes tens of GBs of internal data from LG and Xerox
The operators of the Maze ransomware have published today tens of GB of internal data from the networks of enterprise business giants LG and Xerox following two failed extortion attempts. The hackers leaked 50.2 GB they claim to have stolen from LG's internal network, and 25.8 GB of Xerox data. While LG issued a generic statement to ZDNet in June, neither company wanted to talk about the incident in great depth today. Both of today's leaks have been teased since late June when the operators...
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Has Canon Suffered A Ransomware Attack? 10TB Of Data Alleged Stolen: Report
Last week Canon suffered an outage impacting users of the image.canon photo storage site. Now, it has been reported that it may have been hit by a ransomware attack involving the theft of 10TB of data across multiple services. This is a breaking story, but here's what I know so far. According to Bleeping Computer, which has a partial screenshot of what is alleged to be the ransom note, Canon was attacked during the morning of August 5 by the notorious Maze ransomware gang. A member of the...
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could be.... a few weeks ago we had some threads about KM's site being down for ordering also. I can't confirm but heard they also had a problem
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Canon Admits Ransomware Attack in Employee Note, Report
A day after Canon was suspected of becoming the latest high-profile victim of a ransomware attack, an internal employee communique admitting just that has been leaked to media. According to Bleeping Computer, the camera-maker has circulated a note to employees confirming that ransomware is to blame for outages across its main U.S. website, email, collaboration platforms and various internal systems. “Canon U.S.A, Inc. and its subsidiaries understand the importance of maintaining the...
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Re: Has Canon Suffered A Ransomware Attack? 10TB Of Data Alleged Stolen: Report
Anyone know if this is why Canon's dealer portal has been broken these past few days?
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MSP & MSSP Industry Notes for August 9th, 2020
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Canon ransomware attack update
Canon ransomware attack update - Bank Info Security magazine published article with update on recent event - According to Emsisoft Security, the Maze ransomware group has posted on its Dark Web website some of the data is claims it stole from Canon USA - Claims it posted only 5%, or 2.5GB of the data it now has possession of, and is threatening to post most of the data if Canon does not pay ransom - Apparently Canon disclosed on 8/6/20 that it was struck by the ransomware, and has now...
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Cybersecurity Updates
Cybersecurity Updates Fortinet Security published report on healthcare cybersecurity: o 87% of healthcare providers use IoT devices o 79% are making cloud adoption a strategic priority o 59% of breaches are carried out by internal threats o 60% increase in cyber attacks in past year o 41% of breaches are caused by email o 51% fail to comply with HIPAA Right to Access 83% recognize that HIPAA compliance is not enough to address cyber threats 72% on average comply with HIPAA Security Rule...
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Hartford Public Schools closed due to ransomware attack
CONNECTICUT - Schools in the Hartford Public School system did not open on Tuesday as scheduled due to a cyber attack. In a letter posted to families and staff on the district's website , school officials wrote that no in-person or online learning would take place until a ransomware virus detected in the system that communicates transportation routes to the district's bus company could be resolved. The virus had caused an outage of critical systems. read the rest here
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MSP, IT, & MSSP Industry Notes for September 26th, 2020
MSP IT & MSSP Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group Why partnering with ARCOA makes sense Electronics Recycling is an important and profitable part of the IT asset lifecycle, but it can be overwhelming with all you already do, varying state regulations, and the limited resources at hand. That’s where ARCOA comes in. When you partner with ARCOA, you get all the benefits of a big company without any of the capital investment. We’ve been doing this since 1989 and have the expertise,...
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Cybersecurity Update
HIPAA & Cybersecurity Updates - The federal Office for Civil Rights (under Department of Health & Human Services) announced following settlements based on HIPAA violation investigations: o $15,000 = All Inclusive Medical Services of California o $70,000 = Northeast Behavioral Health, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health of Massachusetts o $3500 = Dr. Patricia King Psychiatric Clinic of Chesapeake, VA o $10,000 = Wise Psychiatry of Centennial, CA o $38,000 = Housing Works Health of New...
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Cybersecurity Update
Department of Health & Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stated that so far in 2020, the PHI (protected health information) of 13.7 million patients hasbeen affected by data breaches. Causes: 66% = hacking 21% = unauthorized access/disclosure 7% = theft3% = improper disposal 3% = loss Premera Blue Cross, headquartered in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, paid the largest HIPAA fine in history, when it agreed to pay the feds $6.85 million in regards to breach that exposed PHI of...
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Lake George conservancy hit by ransomware attack
BOLTON — The Lake George Land Conservancy, which works to protect land and the watershed around the lake, was the target of a recent ransomeware attack on its internal computer server. But the organization said it had already backed up its files at a another location and simply eliminated the files locked by the malware after it learned of the breach on Sept. 23. “We immediately took steps to address the breach, secure our data, and determine the extent of organizational data that may have...
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Cybersecurity Update
Cybersecurity Update HIPAA & Cybersecurity Updates - Ballad Health of Johnson City, TN, reported that an employee, without patient’s permission, posted photo of a surgery, where surgeon was wearing a racing helmet. - The City of Atlanta, GA admitted that after it was hit by ransomware, the first month of recovery cost almost $3 million. The ransom demand from hackers, which was not paid, was $50,000. - Clearwater River Casino & Lodge in Lewiston, Idaho notified an unknown number of...
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IT-Based COVID Responses Inviting More Vicious Ransomware Attacks, Says 'MSP 501 ...
IT-Based COVID Responses Inviting More Vicious Ransomware Attacks, Says 'MSP 501 WESTCHESTER, Ill. , Oct. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Newly released cybersecurity trends data suggest that COVID-19 contact-tracing apps and telemedicine initiatives have helped create a target-rich environment for increasingly vicious ransomware attacks against manufacturers, healthcare providers, and others, said Isaac Sajjad in remarks offered after his Chicago -area information technology (IT) managed services...
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Cybersecurity Update
Cybersecurity Update WeWork revealed that an employee discovered that if users entered “9999” on the network, they could print out other people’s jobs, while www.thinkarcoa.com using free office WiFi account. This has since been corrected. The FBI is reporting that a Eastern European hacking group named “UNC1878” aks Wizard Spider, is using Ryuk ransomware to target hospitals in the U.S.NBC *News is reporting that 20 hospitals have been struck so far. Wakefern Food Corp., headquartered in...
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Cybersecurity Updates
Cybersecurity Updates Cyber consulting firms are getting dragged into post-breach lawsuits, according to article published by Bloomberg Law. o Accenture Plc’s unit was compelled to provide info during recent suit filed against Marriott International o Was forced to turn over cybersecurity firm Mandiant’s report on a cloud hack in another case. o Class action lawyers claim it could provide “a vivid trail for liability” The feds report that in the month of October, 2020, over 2.1 million...
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Canon confirms it was hit by ransomware
Canon confirms it was hit by ransomware Articles published by several IT technology magazines, including TechRadar Pro - Maze ransomware group was responsible for attack that occurred in August, 2020 - Info stolen included data on current and former employees from 2005-2020 - Stole 10 terabytes of data from Canon - Did not detail how the ransomware was able to enter Canon’s network
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Cybersecurity Updates
HIPAA & Cybersecurity Updates First Impressions Orthodontics/Professional Dental Alliance of Connecticut, notified 23,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after ransomware attack. The Connecticut Department of Social Services notified 37,000 patients that their PHI was exposed after an email phishing attack. The federal government is proposing a new law named “The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act”, to increase awareness and standards regarding security of these devices...
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Sharp’s Foxconn parent hit by ransomware
Sharp’s parent hit by ransomware Foxconn, aka Hon Hai Precision, owner of Sharp, notified an unknown number of employees and customers that it was hit by ransomware attack. The DoppelPaymer ransomware gang has taken credit for the attack, and has begun posting confidential data on the Dark Web. Demanding $34,686,000.00 ransomware payment Claims to have accessed and encrypted 1200-1400 servers with up to 30 terabytes of info
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Cybersecurity Update
Cybersecurity Updates University of Vermont (UVM) Health claims that the total cost of recent ransomware attack will exceed $63 million. Cedar Springs Hospital of Colorado Springs, Colorado, notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed after an external drive was stolen. Dental Care Alliance, headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, notified over 1 million patients that their PHI was exposed after a ransomware attack. Dyras Dental Clinic of Lansing, Michigan notified an...
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Cybersecurity Update
Proliance Surgeons of Seattle, WA notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after a cybersecurity incident. Elite Primary Care, aka Dr. Peter Wrobel Clinic, of Waycross, Georgia, was ordered to pay $36,000 to settle HIPAA violation regarding failure to respond to patient’s request for their PHI. University of Vermont Medical Center gave more details on October ransomware attack: Did not pay ransom Attack deposited malware on all servers, 5,000 computers and...
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Cybersecurity Update
ZDNet magazine now reports that 50% of hacking attacks on healthcare industry involve ransomware. The federal government announced that the year 2020 set a record for number of breaches in the U.S. healthcare industry. Socialarks, a social media management company, exposed 400 gigabytes of personal info from 214 million users due to an unsecure online database. President Donald Trump officially signed HR 7898 into law on January 5, 2021The HIPAA Safe Harbor bill amends the HITECH act to...
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MSP, MSSP and IT Notes Industry January 24th, 2021
January 24, 2021 MSP. IT & MSSP Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group Why partnering with ARCOA makes sense Electronics Recycling is an important and profitable part of the IT asset lifecycle, but it can be overwhelming with all you already do, varying state regulations, and the limited resources at hand. That’s where ARCOA comes in. When you partner with ARCOA, you get all the benefits of a big company without any of the capital investment. We’ve been doing this since 1989 and have...
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MSP, MSSP and IT Notes Industry February 7th 2021
February 7th, 2021 MSP. IT & MSSP Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group Why partnering with ARCOA makes sense Electronics Recycling is an important and profitable part of the IT asset lifecycle, but it can be overwhelming with all you already do, varying state regulations, and the limited resources at hand. That’s where ARCOA comes in. When you partner with ARCOA, you get all the benefits of a big company without any of the capital investment. We’ve been doing this since 1989 and have...
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Cybersecurity Updates
Wall Street Journal published report called “Hospital Suffer New Wave of Hacking Attempts” Great Plains Health of Nebraska’s Christopher Stroud admitted that up to 70,000 attempts per day from hackers trying to get into the hospital’s network Hackers give interview with Cisco researcher: Identified as “Aleks”, and lives in Siberia, Russia In his early 30s Has university level education Uses Mimikatz and PowerShell as tools Is part of the Lockbit ransomware gang Healthcare is his favorite...
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Cybersecurity Update
IBM published results of new research on the average total cost of a breach by vertical market: $7.13 million = healthcare $6.39 million = energy $5.85 million = finance $5.06 million = pharma $5.04 million = tech $3.9 million = education Average amount of days before breach is discovered: 329 days = healthcare 324 days = government 283 days = education Security Week magazine reports on ransomware: Ransomware gangs earned at least $350 million in 2020 311% increase YoY $154,000.00 = average...
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Cybersecurity Update
Spectra Logic of Boulder, CO notified an unknown number of customers that their info may have been exposed after ransomware attack. - The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Charles Hilton & Associates Law Firm have been sued related to a breach that exposed the PHI of 36,000 patients. - Proofpoint published report on Insider Caused Breaches: o $3.86 million is average total cost of an insider caused data breach o 30% of breaches a involve internal threat actoss 62% =...
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Leading Managed Services Provider Offers Ransomware Protection-as-a-Service Based on ...
Leading Managed Services Provider Offers Ransomware Protection-as-a-Service Based on Cloudian-Veeam Solution SAN MATEO, Calif., April 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloudian® today announced that Calligo , a leading end-to-end managed data services provider, has introduced a new Ransomware Protection-as-a-Service offering based on a Cloudian-Veeam data protection solution. The Cloudian-Veeam solution supports S3 Object Lock, enabling users to make backup data copies immutable and, therefore,...
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Cybersecurity Updates
Cybersecurity Updates Mandiant Security Software published results of 2020 breaches 25% increase in ransomware attacks 78% of ransomware attacks had dwell time of 30 days or less 1% had dwell time of 700 days or more 59% were detected internally Tenable Research published report More than 18,000 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) were reported in 2020, up 6% (this includes Ripple20 and others than impact some brands of printers and MFPs) 46% of breaches in healthcare were from...
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MSP, MSSP and IT Notes Industry April 26th, 2021
MSP, MSSP, and IT Industry Notes Sponsored by Arcoa Group Why partnering with ARCOA makes sense Electronics Recycling is an important and profitable part of the IT asset lifecycle, but it can be overwhelming with all you already do, varying state regulations, and the limited resources at hand. That’s where ARCOA comes in. When you partner with ARCOA, you get all the benefits of a big company without any of the capital investment. We’ve been doing this since 1989 and have the expertise,...
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Cybersecurity Update
HIPAA & Cybersecurity Updates - In an internal memo, the US Department of Justice outlined the creation of a new initiative to "pursue and disrupt" ransomware operations. include the takedown of command-and-control (C2) servers used to manage ransomware campaigns legal seizure of "ill-gotten gains" generated by such schemes. The American College of Emergency Physicians, headquartered in Irving, TX notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI may have been exposed after...
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Cybersecurity Notes
Colonial Pipeline Company, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, was hit by ransomware and forced to shut down its fuel pipeline operation that spans 5,500 miles from Houston, TX to Linden, NJ. This may cause a further spike in gasoline cost. Judge Eldon E. Fallon sentenced Edward Tolliver of New Orleans, LA to 124 months in federal prison for making and selling fake credit cards using stolen identities he acquired from Dark Web sites. SmileDirectClub, headquartered in Nashville, TN,...
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Toshiba Tec Reportedly Hit by DarkSide Ransomware
A subsidiary of Japanese tech giant Toshiba has admitted suffering a cybersecurity breach reportedly caused by the DarkSide ransomware gang. Toshiba Tec Corporation — which makes printing, scanning and other office equipment — revealed the incident in a statement on Friday. Although the update did not confirm whether any customer data was taken in the incident, Toshiba admitted that “it is possible that some information and data may have been leaked by the criminal gang.” The firm has...
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Ransomware Findings
Reported by Webroot.com Data derived from business leaders and IT professionals Signs that ransomware threats are on the decline, however intelligence claims that ransomware attacks is more targeting, better implemented and extremely ruthless. Threats are more geared to higher value and weaker targets Key findings 50% of ransomware demands were more than $50K 40% of ransomware attacks consumed 8 or more man-hours of work 46% of businesses said their clients were also impacted by the attack...
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Cybersecurity News
Colonial Pipeline, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia suffered possible the most publicized ransomware attack in history: Pipeline was shutdown, causing gas prices to soar and gas stations to run out of gas in AL, AR, DC, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, NJ, NY, NC, PA, SC, TN, TX and VA Company admitted it paid the hackers $5 million to get password to de-encrypt the network The DarkSide hacking group in Russia was responsible Brownsville Community Health Center of Brownsville, TX notified an...
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Ransomware Operational Costs
Reported on Webroot.com Ransomware Time to Discovery 9% Less than one hour 43% less than 24 hours 28% 2-3 days 14% within a week 4% within one month 3% over a month Webroot claims of ransomware victims that 49% were unaware of the infection for more than 24 hours
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Cybersecurity Updates
Cybersecurity Updates The federal Office for Civil Rights reports that it is aware of 34.4 million patient records that have been breaches in the past 12 months. The FBI announced that it has received more than 1 million cybercrime complaints over the past 14 months. Ascension Standish Hospital of Michigan notified an unknown number of patients that their PHI was exposed during a recent breach. Ascension St. Joseph Hospital of Tawas City, Michigan notified an unknown number of patients that...
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World's Largest Meat Processor Shuts All US Plants After Ransomware Attack
Meat processing giant JBS S.A. told U.S. officials Tuesday that it was hit by a ransomware attack that likely came from Russia. The incursion forced JBS to shut down all of its plants in the United States, though it later said it expected the “vast majority” of them to resume operations Wednesday. “JBS notified the administration that the ransom demand came from a criminal organization likely based in Russia,” White House principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “The White...
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FUJIFILM shuts down network after suspected ransomware attack
Likely ransomware attack Today, FUJIFILM announced that their Tokyo headquarters suffered a cyberattack Tuesday night that they indicate is a ransomware attack. "FUJIFILM Corporation is currently carrying out an investigation into possible unauthorized access to its server from outside of the company. As part of this investigation, the network is partially shut down and disconnected from external correspondence," FUJIFILM said in a statement. read more here
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Ransomware Key Findings
The clip came from report from Carbonite and Webroot. thought it would be a good share
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MSP, MSSP and IT Notes Industry June 28th, 2021
Sponsored by June 14th, 2021 Arcoa Group Why partnering with ARCOA makes sense Electronics Recycling is an important and profitable part of the IT asset lifecycle, but it can be overwhelming with all you already do, varying state regulations, and the limited resources at hand. That’s where ARCOA comes in. When you partner with ARCOA, you get all the benefits of a big company without any of the capital investment. We’ve been doing this since 1989 and have the expertise, certifications, and...