In today’s age of technology, the potential of breaches and hackings on one’s company are through the roof. There is no shortage of information for hackers to obtain, but now we must worry about our DNA sent into to bio companies are at risk. Luckily there are mitigations and strategies that we can do to protect such personal information. For example, if I owned a lab the very first thing, I would do is train my staff with security awareness training. employees are the weakest link, and the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. My next step would be to implement an application whitelist. Application whitelisting allows me to control the authorized software being executed on the servers. The reason I would choose this technique over blacklisting is because, with app blacklisting I can only block certain software. There are tons and tons of aware produced each day and just no way for me to keep a comprehensive and up to date list of malware applications. The next step of mitigations and strategies I would take is to apply multi-factor authentication into the operating systems. The basis of multi-factor authentication is to ensure that if some form of credentials is taken or obtained, the system still cannot be compromised by just one form of identification or authentication. Another important factor is to maintain regular system backups. The ability to reinstate critical systems and data is crucial in any corporation. Although important, backups are also vulnerable, therefore it is important to keep an offline and offsite backup. Using different authentication methods with the backup systems is vital, if they got into the initial system, they won’t be able to get into the backup with the same identifications and authentications. There are many more mitigation strategies at hand for those looking but these are just a few and important ones to implement.