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5 Ways Your DR and Backup Solutions May Be Weakening Your Cyber Resilience

Zerto

Are your disaster recovery and backup solutions up to the task of cyber resilience ? Not Following the 3-2-1-1 Data Protection Rule The 3-2-1 rule is a data backup strategy that has become the industry standard for data protection and disaster readiness, and that keeps on evolving. Consider these five ways they may be deficient.

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The CISOs Guide to Storage & Backup Cyber Resiliency

Solutions Review

Data about the security posture of their storage and backup systems is either woefully deficient or missing entirely. That state of affairs is likely to remain until the inherent risk posed by vulnerable storage and backup systems is addressed. That means they are wide open to attack from ransomware and other forms of malware.

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Best practices for verifying and validating your backups

Acronis

Many IT teams and companies think they’re successfully backing up their data and applications, only to have unpleasant surprises in the case of a malware attack, outage or other event. To overcome these challenges, you need to make sure you’re verifying that your backups are working exactly how you think they should.

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Four Attack Vectors for Web Applications Being Targeted by Ransomware

Solutions Review

The shift to remote work has pushed even more applications out of the data center and onto the internet. The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that for hacking, web applications are the biggest attack vector in use, accounting for more than 80% of all data breaches. Application access. Application access.

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Recovery: The Ultimate Line of Defense Against Ransomware

Zerto

Every device user in your organization is a target for attackers to obtain credentials, infiltrate, and spread malware within your system. The more credentials that get compromised, the more access attackers may have to critical data and applications. Backups and Snapshots. Detection and Prevention.

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Software-Defined Backup vs. Appliances; What’s the Difference?

Solutions Review

In this submission, FalconStor Vice President of Customer Success Abdul Hashmi offers a comparison of software-defined backup vs. appliances. Enterprises large and small need to consider 10 factors when choosing between a software-defined backup target or a dedicated all-in-one backup appliance for data protection and disaster recovery.

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What’s the Worst-case Scenario for a Ransomware Attack?

Pure Storage

The attacker sends malware into your system and gains access to your data. . They then plant malware in the system, which usually runs undetected in the background for a period of time until the attacker decides to get the party started. . The malware infects or deletes Active Directory. . Your backups don’t work.

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