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News alert: DataPivot delivers innovative data backup, recovery services to healthcare sector

The Last Watchdog

25, 2023— DataPivot Technologies , a prominent provider of Data Center, Cloud and Data Protection Solutions, understands that healthcare providers today are scrambling to solve complex clinical, operational and patient data backup & recovery challenges. North Andover, Mass.,

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Preparing for Ransomware: Are Backups Enough?

eSecurity Planet

In a year where ransomware has raised the alert levels everywhere, the go-to answer from many is redundancy through offline, remote backups – but are they enough? Backups are a critical component of any enterprise cybersecurity posture, but they are not an airtight strategy. Why Are Backups Critical? The Argument for Backups.

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What’s the difference between high availability and backup again?

Webroot

Given the recent spate of high-profile attacks, it’s worth remembering the difference between standard backup and high-availability replication. For instance, a highly transactional system performing critical Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) could not afford the loss of data that occurred between backup cycles. Data backup.

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LastPass Breach

Schneier on Security

The threat actor was also able to copy a backup of customer vault data from the encrypted storage container which is stored in a proprietary binary format that contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.

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12 Data Loss Prevention Best Practices (+ Real Success Stories)

eSecurity Planet

Sample zero trust navigation dashboard from Cloudflare Implement the 3-2-1 Backup Rule When applying the 3-2-1 backup rule, make sure you have three copies of your data: one primary and two backups. Keep these copies on two separate types of media: hard disks, cloud storage , and tape backups. No user data was lost.

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MITRE ResilienCyCon: You Will Be Breached So Be Ready

eSecurity Planet

Google’s cloud security is well regarded (and the company has shared some documentation of its security architecture and practices too). Backup Is Hard. “ Immutable backups ” are often touted as the answer here. Also read : Is the Answer to Vulnerabilities Patch Management as a Service? Really Hard.

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Building a Ransomware Resilient Architecture

eSecurity Planet

You have the disaster recovery (DR) site, backups, and storage area network (SAN) snapshots. As you try each one, that pit in your stomach grows as you experience the worst feeling in IT: the realization you have no backup for recovery. Your backups, the backup server, and all the backup storage — all encrypted by ransomware.