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Ransomware: It’s coming for your backup servers

Network World

Backup and recovery systems are at risk for two types of ransomware attacks: encryption and exfiltration – and most on-premises backup servers are wide open to both. This makes backup systems themselves the primary target of some ransomware groups, and warrants special attention.

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Microsoft’s Veeam partnership signals data resiliency market shift

Network World

The platform, hosted on Microsoft Azure, uses zero trust and isolated Azure Blob Storage to secure backups. Three Veeam Data Cloud offerings will benefit directly from the Microsoft integration: Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, a Microsoft 365 backup service with 23.5 The big winner, though, is customers.

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World Backup Day: A Clarion Call for Cyber Resilience

SecureWorld News

World Backup Day is more than a calendar curiosityit's a call to action. In a digital world defined by ransomware, cloud sprawl, and hybrid infrastructures, the ability to recover data quickly and securely is one of the most important indicators of an organization's cyber resilience. The message is clear: trust, but verify.

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Buyer’s guide: Data protection for hybrid clouds

Network World

Data protection is a broad category that includes data security but also encompasses backup and disaster recovery, safe data storage, business continuity and resilience, and compliance with data privacy regulations. Microsoft and Unitrends are niche players, according to Gartner.

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

In the ever-evolving realm of information security, the principle of Least Privilege stands out as the cornerstone of safeguarding sensitive data. However, this fundamental concept, emphasizing limited access to resources and information, has been progressively overlooked, placing our digital ecosystems at greater risk.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Organizations are giving more priority to development of information security policies, as protecting their assets is one of the prominent things that needs to be considered. So an organization makes different strategies in implementing a security policy successfully. Backup Policy. Get Management Support. Write Policies.

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One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

The fenced forensic environment provides a safe location to provide forensic analysis of backup datasets to identify a copy of the data that is free from malware or ransomware and can be safely restored – this copy is often referred to by storage and backup administrators as “a known good copy.”. Data and Information Security

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