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You may think “why would anyone target us, we aren’t big enough”.
We have been storing our important items in secure and hard to access places for about 1,000 years, but backup technology has only recently caught up. |
“We live at a time when every government, every business, every person must focus on the threat of ransomware and take action to mitigate the risk of becoming a victim.” CISA Director, Jen Easterly (January 2022) Source: NCSC joins US and Australian partners to reveal latest… – NCSC.GOV.UK
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Protect your backups Most businesses now have backups in some form and while we are pleased to see progress in this area, ransomware will simply encrypt or delete backups if it can get to them. Thankfully, protecting against this is quite simple. |
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Air gapped backups Backups should always be stored separately from your main network, in a way that cannot be accessed without using separate credentials. This is called “air gapping”. Think of it like placing a copy of something in a safe. |
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Immutable backups It should not be possible to overwrite or delete backups once they have been made, for a set period of time. This is what is called “immutability”. Think of it as the difference between carving words in granite and writing it on a piece of paper. |
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Geo-dispersed backups Ideally backups should be stored in more than one location, so that loss of one copy does not result in loss of your backups. |
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Zerto Our Zerto solution is based on a foundation of continuous data protection and brings together data protection and disaster recovery into a simple, cloud managed solution that supports on-premise, multi-cloud and hybrid environments. In short whatever you have, we can protect it with Zerto. |
Veeam While Veeam does not as easily support rewinding your business as Zerto, it does offer offsite immutable and air gapped backups. It is a valuable option to consider as part of a wider cyber security strategy. |
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