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The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness

Schneier on Security

This brittleness is a result of market incentives. It’s also true for CrowdStrike’s customers, who also didn’t have resilience, redundancy, or backup systems in place for failures such as this because they are also an expense that affects short-term profitability. CrowdStrike is one of those companies.

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Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: More than just a backup solution

Tech Republic Security

The number of cybersecurity protection tools on the market is staggering, which makes it challenging to decide which to use. The post Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: More than just a backup solution appeared first on TechRepublic. Acronis has one tool that stands out in the pack. Read on to see if this tool is right for you.

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Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection

eSecurity Planet

Backup has in some sense always been about the security of data. In the event of a data loss or disaster, you could turn to your backup to retrieve the data. But these days, backup must do much more. “Or worse, what if your multiple copies or backups are also all bad?” Key Features of Ransomware Backup.

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LW ROUNDTABLE — How 2024’s cyber threats will transform the security landscape in 2025

The Last Watchdog

With adversaries destroying backups to increase extortion payouts, recovery will grow harder and slower, emphasizing the need for stronger security controls and architecture. This includes taking snapshot snapshots of your data environment on a regular basis.

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Ransomware Resiliency for Storage & Backup: Trends, Threats & Tips

CyberSecurity Insiders

Breaking The Myths: Storage, Backup, And Data Recoverability. A few years ago, very few CISOs thought that storage & backups were important. Ransomware has pushed backup and recovery back onto the agenda. Cybercriminals like Conti, Hive and REvil have been actively targeting storage and backup systems, to prevent recovery.

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Microsoft 365 Backup: Myth?Busting Session

Tech Republic Security

busting session with Associate Research Director at IDC, Archana Venkatraman, as she shares her latest research and insights on: The state of the Microsoft 365 data protection market Why it is an imperative to protect Microsoft. The post Microsoft 365 Backup: Myth?Busting Busting Session appeared first on TechRepublic.

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World Backup Day reminds us all just how precious our data is

Webroot

What is backup? Simply put, backup is a copy of your files. Why backup? Backup enables you to keep your data accessible and secure. Take control of your data through backup. Beginning the backup process can be daunting. There are a number of backup options. Make data backup a priority.

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