When you think of worst-case scenarios for your enterprise, you likely think of disasters with your storage environment, failing hardware, botched firmware updates, or overall downtime.
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Air-Gapped Backups: The Gold Standard in Protecting Against Ransomware
If you’ve been keeping an eye on our blog (or even just on daily news headlines), you’re likely very aware that ransomware has evolved dramatically over the past several years. We’ve discussed trends in ransomware coupled with extortion, as well as tips to stay ahead of the threat, among other topics. The common theme in…
Top 10 Tips for Assessing Proactive Cybersecurity
Hackers have advanced far beyond the catchy click-bait banners at the top of various websites urging you to finish a song lyric. Even if you think you have a great cybersecurity system in place, it’s no longer a matter of if you will become a target of hackers, but when. To maintain a trustworthy reputation…
Reduce the Risk of Ransomware: 5 Ways to Stay Ahead of the Threat
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The Rise in Extortion Efforts Adds New Complexity to Ransomware
Ransomware was fairly cut-and-dry until recently. If your organization was affected, you either paid the ransomware request or you didn’t. If you opted not to pay, you had to figure out how to restore from unaffected backups. Unfortunately, a new challenge is emerging: Ransomware coupled with extortion. In other words, pay up, or your data…
A New Cybersecurity Executive Order Puts the Heat on Critical Infrastructure Suppliers
Ransomware. Five years ago, the cybersecurity community knew that term well, although among others it was far from dinner table conversation. Times have changed.