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Octubre 7, 2026

Should You Pay a Ransomware Ransom? What the Law and Experience Say

It's the question nobody wants to have to answer under pressure, and yet it's exactly the situation most businesses face it in: systems encrypted, operations halted, a 48- or 72-hour window before the price goes up or the data leaks, and a board waiting for a clear recommendation. There's no universally correct answer. What there is, is a set of factors that should weigh more heavily than the pani

Octubre 6, 2026

Double Extortion Ransomware: When Attackers Don't Just Encrypt, They Leak

For years, the standard security advice against ransomware was fairly simple: if you have good backups, ransomware loses its negotiating power. It encrypts your files, you restore from backup, and the attacker is left with nothing to offer in exchange for their ransom. That logic worked reasonably well — until ransomware groups found a way to neutralize it entirely. The solution they landed on is

Octubre 5, 2026

Ransomware-as-a-Service: Why Any Small Business Is Now an Easy Target

The owner of a 22-employee auto parts distributor in Cali had a comforting theory: "nobody's targeting us, we're too small to be worth the effort." Six months later, his entire inventory and billing database was encrypted, with a note demanding cryptocurrency payment to restore access. The attacker had never heard of his company specifically. It didn't need to — a program had scanned thousands of

Octubre 2, 2026

Cybersecurity and Public Procurement in Colombia: Requirements You Must Meet

A mid-sized technology company in Cali had spent years selling to private clients without much fuss about security requirements. When it entered its first bid with a public entity, it found a list of requirements in the bidding document it had never needed before: a current ISO 27001 certification, evidence of a business continuity plan, and a signed declaration of Law 1581 compliance. It had to w

Octubre 1, 2026

Compliance Audit vs. Cybersecurity Audit: Key Differences

"We already had the audit done, so why do you keep finding vulnerabilities?" It's a question we hear more often than you'd expect, and it almost always reveals the same underlying confusion: the business hired a compliance audit, expecting it to also function as a technical cybersecurity audit. They're two different exercises, answering two different questions, and mixing them up can leave a busin

Septiembre 30, 2026

Is Your Company Legally Required to Report a Cyberattack in Colombia?

It's three in the morning, the IT team just confirmed there's active ransomware on the network, and in the middle of the technical chaos someone asks: "who do we actually have to tell?" It's one of the most anxiety-inducing questions during an incident, and the honest answer is: it depends. Colombia doesn't have a single law saying "every cyberattack must be reported here within 72 hours," the way

Septiembre 29, 2026

ISO 27001 Compliance Checklist for Colombian Companies in 2026

"We need ISO 27001 certification for the next contract" is a sentence we hear constantly from Colombian businesses that, until that moment, had never given the topic much thought. It usually arrives in the worst possible way: a large client, often in the financial or government sector, lists it as a requirement in a bid, and suddenly there are three months to get something that normally takes six

Septiembre 28, 2026

SIC Fines for Data Protection Violations: Real Cases in Colombia

Two thousand monthly minimum wages. That's the ceiling Law 1581 gives Colombia's Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) to fine a business that violates its personal data protection obligations. In today's pesos, that easily tops COP 2.6 billion for a single infraction. And contrary to what many businesses assume, the SIC doesn't reserve these penalties for massive breach scandals — most o

Septiembre 25, 2026

CONPES 3995 Explained: Colombia's National Digital Trust Policy

Most of Colombia's cybersecurity laws — Law 1581, Law 1273, the sector circulars from the SFC and Supersalud — were born either before or after a document few businesses know about, but which largely explains why all those other rules ended up existing: CONPES 3995 of 2020, the National Digital Trust and Security Policy. It's not a law that directly fines your business. It's something different, a