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Entrepreneur Isac Bloom provides IT

support and computer maintenance in

Portsmouth. His profession became duty

when faced with a personal emergency

back in 2017. A year earlier, Isac

was a 26-year-old fresh graduate from

the Imperial College, London. With his

computer science diploma, he wanted to

find a proper job, marry to his girlfriend

and settle down in a quiet town to live

a peaceful life. He moved and found a

job at a Portsmouth IT support startup.

Isac bought an engagement ring for

his girlfriend Kayla from his first salary,

and proposed to her on the first night

they moved together. Not long before

their wedding day, his fiancée Kayla

became ill from a rare kidney disease.

So, hospitals and other institutions

were left with an unsecured IT support

package in Portsmouth. Because of

the virus, the list of potential donors of

organs was inaccessible and the doctors

were helpless when they told Isac

the news. Although he knew about the

cyberattack, Isac could do nothing to

help the hospital and Kayla. It was too

late to save the computers and recover

the data. It was only luck that Isac’s

blood type matched Kayla’s. And he

was able to offer his kidney to her. So,

Kayla was saved and cured. They went

home, and after a short delay, they

got married at Portsmouth Cathedral.

After the ordeal, Isac wanted to prevent

others from such an experience like his.

Lying in a hospital bed, waiting for an organ

transplant. Despite the ominous diagnosis,

doctors at the Queen Alexandra

Hospital should have been able to cure

Isac’s bride-to-be. 2017 was also the year

when at least 25 NHS hospitals in the UK –

including the Queen Alexandra Hospital

in Portsmouth - were cyberattacked by a

ransomware known as Wanna Decryptor.

This virus corrupted computers

with outdated Windows XP and paralysed

the IT systems causing headaches

for doctors and endangering the lives

of patients like Kayla, though NHS was

aware Microsoft had stopped providing

updates for Windows operating systems.

Learning from the past he acted fast, and

established his tech company to help

those who need Portsmouth business

IT support, and other computer- based

security services like cybersecurity and

cloud computing. His team provides

support for schools, hospitals, and businesses

in the public sector. The company

works with several computer repairs

in Portsmouth and in other cities. If we

can learn anything from this story, it is

that we should take seriously information

technology from now on. And take

care of our computer either for corporal

or personal use, because who knows:

One day, lives might could depend on it.

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