Webcast On the face of it, blunting a ransomware attack should be straightforward if you’ve got a solid data protection plan in place.
After all, traditional backup and archive strategies have been designed with disaster recovery in mind, haven’t they?
Yes, but if recovery times are measured in hours and days, that’s next to useless if you’re a medical or critical infrastructure facility, or a business that is losing thousands or millions of dollars per hour of downtime. And, unsurprisingly, sophisticated ransomware attacks focus on seizing control of backups as a precursor to the main assault.
So it is that many organisations make the extremely unpalatable but completely rational decision to pay up to restore their data, which only fuels the ransomware arms race further.
If this all sounds irredeemably bleak, there are ways to fight back, as you’l ..
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