Category: Ransomware

“3-2-1” Backups Are NOT Reliable in the Age of Ransomware Most people in the world of IT will be familiar with the old “3-2-1” backup strategy, which had become a pretty standard data protection technique: Three copies of data (primary and two backups); two copies stored locally on two different formats (NAS, tape or local…
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Data resilience is typically defined as an organisation’s ability to ensure business continuity in the face of any disaster or disruption. While there’s more to the story regarding achieving data resilience, the concept itself is simple. A global survey of IT decision-makers commissioned by Arcserve found that 83% now include data resilience in their business…
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Mordor Intelligence estimates that more than 80% of midmarket and enterprise organisations are using network-attached storage (NAS) today and predicts that the NAS market will grow at an impressive 19.5 percent CAGR between 2021 and 2026. Mordor also points out that the most significant factor driving this growth is the “explosion in unstructured data, increasing…
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No matter how hard you try, you can’t escape ransomware. The volume of ransomware attacks reached an unfathomable 623.3 million globally according to the 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, a 105% year-over-year increase. One Russian ransomware gang has developed a new approach that hunts for privileged users and services to access, exfiltrate, remove, and encrypt…
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Rampant ransomware attacks exploit vulnerabilities to breach companies, encrypt data, and extort painfully large ransom pay-outs. The SonicWall 2022 Cyber Threat Report found that ransomware attacks reached an unfathomable 623.3 million globally, a 105% year-over-year increase. That brings us to the 3-2-1-1 backup strategy: keep three copies of your data (one primary and two backups),…
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Ransomware attackers are targeting your backups now more than ever. A recent Ransomware.org article uses military references to illustrate how evil-doers use two ways to subvert your backups. They refer to the first attack strategy as a flanking movement, where hackers exfiltrate your data before encrypting it. That gives them another way to extort money…
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The Direct and Indirect Impacts of Ransomware Ransomware can negatively affect an organisation in several ways, some direct and others indirect. For example, when ransomware encrypts an organisation’s data, users are unable to access applications and systems. This downtime can cost businesses millions of dollars depending on when the attack takes place and how long…
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