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Why Paying the Ransom Should Be Your Last Option

Pure Storage

The Risks of Paying the Ransom Paying a ransom after a ransomware attack might seem like the easiest way out and the quickest path to recovery, but it comes with significant risks that often outweigh the potential benefits. For example, the 2021 attack on Colonial Pipeline led to a $4.4

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021 forced the shutdown of a major U.S. This is a key part of becoming cyber resilient. Note that authorities often advise against paying ransoms, as it encourages further attacks and doesnt guarantee data recovery. fuel pipeline, causing widespread disruptions.

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Zerto Launch: Challenging the Threat of Ransomware in a Multi-Cloud World

Zerto

In the fight against cyberattacks, Zerto’s spring 2022 release elevates ransomware resilience with new capabilities designed to help customers recover from an attack in minutes, at scale, and to modernize their data protection in a multi-cloud world. Hit a Moving Target. million ransom paid. Zerto does just this.

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How to Recover from a Cyber Attack

Zerto

This stage of cyber recovery involves several key steps. Create Data Recovery Procedures Recovering lost or compromised data is a critical aspect of cyber incident recovery. Restore the System and Network In addition to data recovery, it is essential to restore the functionality of compromised systems and networks.

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What is a Tiered Resiliency Architecture and Why Does it Matter?

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In this submission, Pure Storage CTO Andy Stone offers an introduction to tiered resiliency architectures for fast ransomware recovery. After all, speed is of the essence – an organization’s most significant defense against ransomware attackers is executing rapid recovery following an attack. What do I mean by that?

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Improve Business Continuity with Virtualization

Pure Storage

Gartner had to update its 2021 predictions for global IT spending to highlight growing industry investment. In fact, Gartner now predicts that enterprise executives will invest even more in 2021, with global IT spending up 8.4% It builds business resilience to power your virtualization needs. . from 2020 to $4.1

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

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Business continuity planning addresses the big picture, including a broad range of operational functions, whereas disaster recovery planning deals primarily with IT infrastructure and data recovery. This typically involves detailed technical strategies for system failover, data recovery, and backups.