2y ago

Ransomware attackers are increasingly targeting backups — so make sure yours are protected

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If your backup can be reached by a ransomware, it's not a backup.
- Tell that to 90% of Veeam deployments.
  
  Why name drop Veeam as if they're part of the problem?
  They at least have good options to protect backups from ransomware with Linux hardened repos and immutable object storage.
The joke is on them. I don't back up anything.
- Production is for testing and for data archiving. Think of the money we'll save!
Stories like this make me want to retire early. Most bosses just aren't willing to pay for sufficient cybersecurity.
- My boss encrypts nothing and leaves all of the machines switched on overnight, every night.
  We got burgled once and someone made off with some postcards and £5 in loose change, overlooking access to a vast trove of customers highly exposing personal, financial, medical and legal documents that has never been purged for over a decade.
  He didn't even change anything afterwards!
  
  To be fair, the common thief isn't into that sort of burglary. They're looking for something they can pawn or use themselves
  
  Is your boss Denholm Reynholm?
Burn read only backups.
- They'll never encrypt my 2000 DVDs!
Come attack mine. It’s kept off my property on a hard drive disconnected from everything. Update it every 6 months.
What methods are they using to locate the backups?
- Naming convention. Internal DNS. If you're asking this, you are woefully unprepared. If you're unprepared, you need someone to help.
looks at stack of back up hard drives physically unplugged on the shelf
k.

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