Pure Storage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Assessing Ransomware Risk with the Pure Storage Security Assessment by Pure Storage Blog Summary The Pure Storage Security Assessment is a comprehensive evaluation tool that helps organizations identify and address vulnerabilities in their storage environment and offers actionable steps to help them reduce exposure to threats.

Security 52

Security Vulnerability Backup Evaluation 52

Zerto

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In an era where cyber threats are constantly evolving, understanding the differences between cyber recovery, disaster recovery (DR) , and backup & recovery is critical to ensuring an organization’s resilience and security. Cyber recovery also emphasizes threat mitigation during recovery, while DR focuses on system functionality.

Disaster Recovery 104

Disaster Recovery Backup Cyber Resilience Malware 104

Solutions Review

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In this feature, Apricorn ‘s Kurt Markley offers four data backup and resilience questions to ask right now. The landscape of evolving digital threats, coupled with the pandemic-induced surge in remote and hybrid work, has exposed organizations to an increasing number of vulnerabilities.

Backup 114

Backup Resilience Audit Management 114

Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

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.

Backup 119

Backup Disaster Recovery Application Outage 119

Acronis

OCTOBER 18, 2022

While online access is convenient, users must mitigate the risk of data loss and avoid losing access to their email. If left unprotected, M365 can pose data control issues, security vulnerabilities, and regulatory exposure.

Backup 98

Backup Vulnerability Mitigation Security 98

Solutions Review

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In this feature, Apricorn ‘s Kurt Markley offers four data backup and resilience questions to ask right now. The landscape of evolving digital threats, coupled with the pandemic-induced surge in remote and hybrid work, has exposed organizations to an increasing number of vulnerabilities.

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Backup Resilience Audit Management 110

Pure Storage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Restoring from secure backups, using decryption tools, and engaging cybersecurity experts can help you recover without funding cybercriminals. Alternative Strategies to Consider These alternatives can help you mitigate the damage, regain control, and prevent future attacksall without funding cybercriminals.

Backup 52

Backup Cybersecurity Cyber Resilience Vulnerability 52

Zerto

MARCH 5, 2024

Are your disaster recovery and backup solutions up to the task of cyber resilience ? Not Following the 3-2-1-1 Data Protection Rule The 3-2-1 rule is a data backup strategy that has become the industry standard for data protection and disaster readiness, and that keeps on evolving. Consider these five ways they may be deficient.

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Cyber Resilience Backup Resilience Disaster Recovery 105

Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Data breaches often exploit vulnerabilities in software, weak passwords, or insider threats to gain access to critical systems and exfiltrate data. Cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in outdated systems or through advanced persistent threats (APTs). To fix these vulnerabilities: 1.

Security 52

Security Vulnerability Cybersecurity Cyber Resilience 52

Bernstein Crisis Management

MAY 19, 2023

Pre-Crisis The pre-crisis stage involves identifying potential crises, assessing their likelihood and potential impact, and developing strategies to prevent, mitigate, or prepare for them. Externally Caused Crises These crises are triggered by external forces beyond the organization’s control.

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Crisis Management Management Evaluation Authorization 202

Pure Storage

MAY 23, 2022

Storage and cloud are now the most common ransomware targets, with vulnerable software and misconfigurations being the most common entry points. . Protecting Backup Copies Is a Key Prevention Tactic. As a result backup protection is no longer a “nice-to-have” but a “must-have.” Ransomware Readiness Is a Team Sport.

Backup 105

Backup Data Recovery Sports Malware 105

Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The editors at Solutions Review map out some Backup and Disaster Recovery best practices every enterprise should consider in their operation strategies. Here are some Backup and Disaster Recovery best practices to consider when implementing your own BDR strategies. Employ a combination of full, incremental, and differential backups.

Disaster Recovery 64

Disaster Recovery Backup Evaluation Mitigation 64

BCP Builder

JANUARY 20, 2025

Mitigating Risks: Exercises help businesses identify and address vulnerabilities before real-world disruptions occur. Key Steps: Evacuation plans, backup site activation, and communication strategies. Checklist: Backup systems, recovery procedures, and alternative workflows.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity BCP Continuity Planning Scenario Planning 52

Bernstein Crisis Management

MAY 24, 2021

Whether it’s an incident affecting a single location, or a pandemic sweeping the globe, business continuity is increasingly vulnerable to a wide variety of natural and man-made interruptions for which organizations must plan as carefully as they plan for launching any product or service. Jonathan Bernstein.

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Pandemic Business Continuity Crisis Management Continuity Professionals 130

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied. Putting it in mathematical terms: (Inherent risk) – (the risk eliminated by your mitigation controls) = residual risk. A related but higher level concept is that of risk mitigation strategies. Risk avoidance. Risk limitation.

Mitigation 95

Mitigation BCM Acceptable Risk Risk Management 95

Zerto

JULY 6, 2023

The Need for Effective Ransomware Detection Ransomware attacks can strike businesses of all sizes and industries, wreaking havoc on their operations and leaving them vulnerable to extortion. Traditional security measures are no longer sufficient, since cybercriminals constantly evolve their tactics to bypass defences.

Resilience 115

Resilience Audit Cyber Resilience Malware 115

Zerto

AUGUST 24, 2023

The third crucial step in risk assessment is risk control, which involves crafting effective strategies to mitigate the identified risks. There are four fundamental types of risk control: risk acceptance, risk mitigation, risk avoidance, and risk transfer. In our last post, we examined the risk analysis step of risk assessment.

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Risk Management Management Acceptable Risk Mitigation 98

everbridge

JANUARY 10, 2025

The ability to anticipate and mitigate such incidents can mean the difference between navigating the storm successfully or facing significant losses. People Cross-functional collaboration: Teams from IT, security, leadership, compliance, and operations must work together to identify potential vulnerabilities and develop strategies.

Resilience 52

Resilience Financial Services Vulnerability Business Continuity 52

Online Computers

JULY 27, 2021

Your business data should have backups — no ifs or buts about it. The real question is whether these backups should be kept in your office or not. To make this decision, you must understand local backups, your needs, and your spending abilities. What are local backups? Provides better control.

Backup 52

Backup Cloud Computing Vulnerability Audit 52

Solutions Review

AUGUST 29, 2024

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.

Backup 52

Backup Management Disaster Recovery Audit 52

Solutions Review

DECEMBER 12, 2024

From advancements in AI-powered risk mitigation to new paradigms in regulatory compliance, these predictions provide actionable perspectives to help organizations navigate the complexities of 2025. Prior to giving coverage, insurers will scan company websites to check if they have systems and processes in place to mitigate their privacy risk.

Vulnerability 52

Vulnerability Cybersecurity Malware Audit 52

Pure Storage

MARCH 21, 2022

Their skills should include vulnerability diagnostics, digital forensics, the ability to analyze memory dumps and malware, and the ability to use analysis tools to perform a correlation analysis of security events. Pure Storage® SafeMode TM snapshots are critical to mitigating and recovering from a ransomware attack.

Emergency Response 105

Emergency Response Emergency Response Backup Outsourcing 105

LAN Infotech

JANUARY 18, 2022

This means businesses will be more vulnerable, especially those who do not take critical measures to mitigate cybercrimes. Your IT department would be at high risk, making the entire organization vulnerable to frequent attacks. How do you store backup? What mechanism do you use to protect your offsite backups?

Insurance 119

Insurance Insurance Cybersecurity Risk Management 119

Pure Storage

AUGUST 22, 2022

Backups and other tasks are scheduled as regular tasks and done automatically behind the scenes. Automated billing systems could wreak havoc by sending invoices too early or too late, backups could be missed, appointments could be missed or deleted, and so on. Your backups don’t work.

Malware 122

Malware Backup Architecture Resilience 122

Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With security as a priority, you can find ways to mitigate those increased risks and identify and resolve vulnerabilities before they lead to a data breach. But not all backups are created equal. Data storage with immutable backups was the second most common defense investment (53%).

Backup 98

Backup Architecture Cybersecurity Malware 98

NexusTek

JANUARY 17, 2024

Capitalizing on human error and a host of other vulnerabilities, threat actors increasingly exploit weak links in supply chains to gain access to bigger targets up the chain. security awareness training, encryption, authentication, monitoring, backup, patching), your policies should also make explicit your security requirements for suppliers.

Management 105

Management Malware Risk Management Cybersecurity 105

LogisManager

JANUARY 14, 2025

Risks Associated With Business Task Automation and How to Mitigate Them Last Updated: January 14, 2025 If your business is investing in task automation, you’ll benefit from increased efficiency and reduced manual tasks. Without the tools to uncover these interconnected risks, businesses could be exposed to dozens of vulnerabilities.

Mitigation 52

Mitigation Risk Management Audit Backup 52

Zerto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It involves restoring compromised systems, mitigating further damage, and ensuring that critical data is secure and accessible. Depending on the nature of the attack, this may involve restoring data from backups, decrypting files affected by ransomware, or rebuilding databases.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Vulnerability Communications Entertainment 98

MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology.

Vulnerability 98

Vulnerability BCM Capacity Outage 98

Pure Storage

AUGUST 8, 2024

Building Data Protection into Government Cyber Defense Data protection is an essential component of any cyber defense and mitigation plan and should be viewed as more than just creating a backup as an insurance policy against an attack. Backups should be the last line of defense. Setting up and maintaining SafeMode is a breeze.

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Resilience Backup Transportation Cybersecurity 76

Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Storage architectures do more than protect data and mitigate security risks. Backup frequency, thoroughness, and efficiency often have significant and direct impacts on overall data center security and performance. Many backup applications have done this by using a verify routine on the backup stream.

Backup 97

Backup Capacity Disaster Recovery Data Integrity 97

Zerto

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With the world becoming increasingly digital, IT departments must manage and mitigate more and more risk using both new technology and improved processes and practices. The causes of unplanned downtime can range from natural disasters to a system administrator entering the wrong command to a cybercriminal exploiting a system vulnerability.

Impact Analysis 98

Impact Analysis Disaster Recovery Backup Cybersecurity 98

Zerto

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Detection and prevention are important to have in place, but they will not always protect you from the human factor that is the most vulnerable part of your defense. Detection and prevention may not stop all attacks, but they can mitigate the risk, frequency, and severity of attacks. Backups and Snapshots.

Malware 98

Malware Backup Application Education 98

Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In this article I’ll start with the before of an attack and discuss what you should do and have in place to ensure you’re closing the gaps that create vulnerabilities and in-roads for attackers. Poor password management practices and improperly secured endpoint devices can create vulnerabilities. Other Vulnerabilities to Note.

Security 98

Security Vulnerability Malware Authentication 98

Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

This study uncovered a demand for data that has never been greater, and yet the vulnerability and risks to data integrity are escalating, with ransomware attacks growing in both severity and scale. This vulnerability is particularly alarming for organizations that are refactoring their applications for Kubernetes and containers.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Failover Application Vulnerability 98

LAN Infotech

OCTOBER 17, 2022

They can expose their networks to vulnerabilities that hackers and cybercriminals can exploit. Not only can outdated software inadvertently create backdoors to your network, but the data contained in these applications is also quite vulnerable. These systems also increase your network’s overall vulnerability to a ransomware attack.

Audit 98

Audit Security Vulnerability Application 98

Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

According to the strategy, investing in a resiliency architecture means: Reducing vulnerabilities in foundational technology—including critical infrastructure such as storage, which should be capable of tiered backups, immutable snapshots, and fast recovery times. Read more: What Is a Resiliency Architecture and How Do You Build One?

Cybersecurity 98

Cybersecurity Resilience Architecture Backup 98