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Why Cybercriminals Are Targeting Your Backups and How to Be Prepared

Solutions Review

Most organizations believe they’re prepared for ransomware attacks with a simple strategy: maintain good backups and use them to restore systems if cybercriminals encrypt their data. Recent research from IDC reveals that in 2023, more than half of all ransomware attacks included attempts to compromise backup systems.

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The Long Tail of Cyber Incidents – A Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) Case Study

Plan B Consulting

Many of these rely on historical data, and as system backups were encrypted, the data will be lost forever. Audit Scotland, in their 2022/23 audit of the council, had to caveat its audit as financial records had been lost, meaning not all spending could be verified.

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45 World Backup Day Quotes from 32 Experts for 2023

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Tim King compiled this roundup of 45 World Backup Day quotes from 32 experts for 2023, part of our ongoing coverage of the enterprise storage and data protection market. World Backup Day quotes have been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.

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Cybersecurity Audit Checklist

Reciprocity

To assure that all those parts are working as intended, you should perform a cybersecurity audit. Audits aren’t just good sense, either; many data privacy and security regulations require audits. That said, the steps for a cybersecurity audit can be long. Define the scope of your audit.

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Crisis Management Explained: A Comprehensive Guide

Bernstein Crisis Management

Business continuity planning: Developing a plan to ensure the organization can continue its critical operations during and after a crisis, including alternative work arrangements, backup systems, and recovery procedures. Externally Caused Crises These crises are triggered by external forces beyond the organization’s control.

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The Most Overlooked Security Issues Facing the Financial Services

Solutions Review

Securing storage and backup systems isn’t always obvious and isn’t always the focus of many CISOs or their teams. So, what is the big picture of securing storage and backup? From industry publications like Bleeping Computer … “The ALPHV ransomware operation exploits veritas backup exec bugs for initial access.

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Catch My Drift? How To Manage Configuration Drift In Storage & Backup Systems

Solutions Review

Continuity’s Doron Youngerwood offers insights on how to manage configuration drift in storage and backup systems. Configuration drift happens when the configurations of storage and backup systems and software deviate from a baseline or standard configuration over time. How To Identify Configuration Drifts?

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