It has been reported that when attackers breach your network, they often first go after your backups in an attempt to corrupt them so that you have no option to get your data back but to pay the ransom. I recently saw some statistics that when they gain access to the backups, they are at […]

Today we continue with our series discussing the highest priority cybersecurity steps as identified in the January 2023 CISA published report “Partnering to SafeGuard K-12 Organizations from Cybersecurity Threats.

  “None shall pass” -The Black Knight “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” Today I would like to challenge you to “test two aspects of your network backups. Most of you have never done this because yPreview (opens in a new tab)ou are “too busy putting out fires”. It is summer.

  “Mind the Gap” As the war unfolds and these “Hacktivist” Guerillas take their shots at both sides of the fight, the details of Russia’s brutal cyberwarfare campaign continue to come to light. It appears Russia’s cyber warriors are using something called “Hermetic Wiper” in their attacks.

  Today’s NIST topic is data recovery. The most obvious example of meeting this NIST standard is maintaining good backups. This is something we have all been doing forever, but as long as we have done it, I constantly see the same issues over and over.

“When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight” – FedEx As many of you know, Bob and I have been doing this for a while – 41 years in fact.   And through all those years, every day is new and fun.   Thanks for your support and friendship and trust through all those years.

A constant frustration of ours is ensuring “clean” backups.   If you corrupt your data or have a server failure, we need to reliably get that data back.  There are a few types of backups.   Image backups are popular with virtualization.  File system backups have always been the gold standard since the dawn of backups.

When all else fails we reach for the backups.   However, increasingly the bad guys are consciously seeking out your backups and deleting them as part of elaborate ransomware routines to force you to pay to recover your data. This can be as simple as the bad guys deleting your volume shadow copies to as complex […]