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Backup lessons learned from 10 major cloud outages

Network World

I’ve always called for independent backups of everything. Whether it’s in your data center, an IaaS vendor like AWS, or a SaaS vendor like Microsoft 365, it needs independent backup. Code Spaces (2014): A hacker gained access and deleted all customer data and backups from Code Spaces’ AWS environment.

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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. A critical business function, not just a checkbox "World Backup Day acts as a crucial reminder that data loss is inevitable, encouraging us to take proactive steps to protect our information," says Emilio Sepulveda , Manager of Information Security at Deepwatch.

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Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Services

Network World

These problems include the time it takes to provision new data services, such as in high availability and disaster recovery, where, Broadcom said, “it can take an enterprise a year or more to properly set up and tune a deployment architectures that includes high availability, disaster recovery and backups.” Not at all.”

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INE Security Launches New Training Solutions to Enhance Cyber Hygiene for SMBs

CIO Business Intelligence

Regular backups ensure that businesses can recover quickly from ransomware attacks or other data loss incidents. The 3-2-1 rule recommends: 3 – Keeping 3 copies of any important file: 1 primary and 2 backups. 2 – Keeping the files on 2 different media types to protect against different types of hazards.

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Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success

CIO Business Intelligence

And in a troubling new trend, backup repositories have become the primary target for ransomware attacks, with backups targeted in 94% of attacks, and at least a portion of backup repositories impacted in 68% of cyber events, according to the 2022 Veeam Ransomware Report.

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: Social Media For Local Gov

CIO Musings

Social Media For Local Gov. The Top 10 issues to be aware of when using social media in local (or any) government: # 1 Ethics & Acceptable Use. Social media tools for citizen’s use? If your organization blocks social media sites you will have some special challenges providing access to the sites to manage them. #

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WhatsApp is testing encrypted cloud backups on Android

TechSpot

When activated, both chat and media history in your cloud backups can be protected using a password. The anticipated security feature is available in WhatsApp's latest beta version for Android (2.21.15.5). This comes with a catch though: if you lose your phone and forget your password (or the 64-digit recovery.

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