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Why Data Backup and Recovery is the Key to Mastering Zero Trust

IT Toolbox

Learn why the ability to backup and restore data efficiently following a cyber attack is critical to cyber resiliency. The post Why Data Backup and Recovery is the Key to Mastering Zero Trust appeared first on Spiceworks.

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How cybersecurity red teams can boost backup protections

Network World

Let’s look at the tactics, strategies, and importance of red teams and the role they can play in enhancing the security of your backup system. Exploiting technical vulnerabilities: Red teams search for and exploit technical vulnerabilities in systems, applications, and networks. Nowhere is this more true than inside the backup system.

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Backup Software vs. Backup as a Service (BaaS): The Key Differences

Network World

Backups continue to serve as the backbone of any data protection solution. While traditional backup software is well-proven, Backup as a Service (BaaS) solutions are rapidly becoming the cross-industry standard. What is Backup Software? However, managing backup software can be complex and resource intensive.

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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. To read this article in full, please click here

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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster

Network World

OVHcloud customers with data in the burned-out data cener who had their own disaster recovery measures in place or who purchased the off-site backup and disaster-recovery services offered by OVHcloud have been able to resume operations. Those who did not lost data that will never come back.

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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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Ransomware: How to make sure backups are ready for a real attack

Network World

The best way to avoid paying ransom to attackers who have infected your systems with ransomware is to have those systems adequately backed up so you can wipe them and restore them from safe backups. Here are several options for making sure those backups are up to the task.

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