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Ransomware Attackers Find Fresh Targets in Cultural Institutions

Pure Storage

Backup your data. Today’s sophisticated ransomware attacks are laser-targeted on backups, compromising them before taking over production environments. A multilayered defense with a modern approach to backup and restore is critical. Backup data and backup metadata must be protected in an immutable state.

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A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware

Pure Storage

Too many IT teams are failing to address obvious security gaps in backup and recovery infrastructure. Those that don’t practice good security hygiene, such as password authentication, identity management, backup policies, and incident management, make life easy for attackers. Swift mitigation and response plans during an attack.

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A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware

Pure Storage

Too many IT teams are failing to address obvious security gaps in backup and recovery infrastructure. Those that don’t practice good security hygiene, such as password authentication, identity management, backup policies, and incident management, make life easy for attackers. Swift mitigation and response plans during an attack.

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A Former Hacker Explains How to Fight Ransomware

Pure Storage

Too many IT teams are failing to address obvious security gaps in backup and recovery infrastructure. Those that don’t practice good security hygiene, such as password authentication, identity management, backup policies, and incident management, make life easy for attackers. Swift mitigation and response plans during an attack.

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How to Put CISA’s “Shields Up” Recommendations Into Action 

Pure Storage

This means being proactive with plenty of hurdles like multifactor authentication and admin credential vaulting. Know your tolerance for downtime, create a regular cadence for testing backups, and have plans for getting mission-critical data back online, such as a bunkered backup architecture or staged recovery environment.

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Cyber Risk & Your Supply Chain: Managing the Growing Threat

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security awareness training, encryption, authentication, monitoring, backup, patching), your policies should also make explicit your security requirements for suppliers. Here are some essential pieces: Policies: In the same ways that you establish and implement best practices and standards for cybersecurity for your own business (e.g.,

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Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery

Pure Storage

This means having the right technology and response plans in place to minimize data loss and downtime from any type of event—cyberattack, natural disaster, or otherwise. Disaster Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Data infrastructures aren’t just built for storage, performance, and scale—they’re designed for resilience.