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How to Create a Ransomware Recovery Plan

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How to Create a Ransomware Recovery Plan by Pure Storage Blog Ransomware is the single most prevalent cyber threat facing businesses today. Using malicious software to gain control of networks, hackers block access to data and other vital computing resources until the victim pays a ransom.

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7 Challenges with Applying AI to Data Security—and the Real Way to Solve Them

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7 Challenges with Applying AI to Data Security—and the Real Way to Solve Them by Pure Storage Blog As AI makes headlines and augments the way we work, there’s one area to be cautiously optimistic about: cybersecurity. Can it lend a hand? But it can lend a hand to the bad guys, too.

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Ransomware’s Latest Targets and How to Protect Yourself

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Storage and cloud are now the most common ransomware targets, with vulnerable software and misconfigurations being the most common entry points. . Although storage systems and cloud are the most common targets across the board, networks and IT infrastructure—specifically data protection infrastructure—are also atop the target list.

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Managing Cyberthreats to Combat Ransomware Part 3: Cybersecurity Frameworks

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As we continue with our third and final blog in this series on managing cyberthreats, we’ll explore frameworks from the National Institute of Standards & Technology and Center for Internet Security, which together provide time-tested knowledge and best practices used to combat ransomware. Data protection. Data recovery.

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How to Create a Data Breach Response Team

Pure Storage

After a cybersecurity event, forensic experts gather evidence from data on computers and other digital storage devices for use in the investigation. This provides a clear understanding of your IT infrastructure, which is helpful both during a security event or before one to highlight security vulnerabilities for proactive action.

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Cloud Data Security Challenges, Part 3: Getting Control

Pure Storage

Controlling cloud data for the sake of keeping it as secure as possible isn’t easy, but that doesn’t mean a) It can’t be done, or b) It can’t also be made easy, or at least, easier , via best practices. . In part 2 of our three-part cloud data security blog series, we discussed the issue of complexity.

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Stay Out of Ransomware Jail with Rapid Recovery

Pure Storage

Ransomware, like most cyber threats, targets and exploits vulnerabilities and other security gaps in legacy, complex IT. Ransomware operators stealthily infiltrate systems, wait around 50-100 days to encrypt data, and then—bang!—demand Immutability for your backup data and backup metadata is also essential for rapid recovery.

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