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Ransomware recovery: 8 steps to successfully restore from backup

CSO Magazine

According to a ransomware survey report released in June by Keeper Security, 49% of companies hit by ransomware paid the ransom—and another 22% declined to say whether they paid or not. Part of the reason is the lack of backups—specifically, the lack of usable backups. To read this article in full, please click here

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging ‘zero trust’ and ‘remote access’ strategies to mitigate ransomware risks

The Last Watchdog

Ransomware? Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. The media paid close attention to ransomware attacks last year, as they had a significant impact on Colonial Pipeline, the nation’s largest fuel distributor, and JBS, the nation’s largest meat distributor.

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Catalogic Software adds newer detection and backup capabilities

CSO Magazine

which now includes GuardMode for early detection of ransomware, and DPX vPlus, cloud backup support for Microsoft 365 and other open virtualization platforms. Catalogic DPX is a proprietary data protection platform that offers the capability to backup data and applications from virtualized machines.

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SEC filings show hidden ransomware costs and losses

CSO Magazine

The ransomware scourge reached unprecedented levels in 2021, with ransomware threat actors demanding, and in many cases receiving, ransom payments in the millions of dollars. million to its ransomware attackers in May 2021, although in a subsequent operation, the U.S In May, backup appliance supplier ExaGrid paid a $2.6

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9 most important steps for SMBs to defend against ransomware attacks

CSO Magazine

What is the best way for a small- to medium-sized business (SMB) to protect itself from ransomware? Ransomware is impacting firms around the world. Mandiant has indicated that ransomware is on the rise and doesn’t appear to be slowing down one bit. Have a backup plan and tested recovery process.

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Nebulon bakes bare-metal Linux ransomware protection into the bootloader

CSO Magazine

Smart infrastructure vendor Nebulon today announced that its latest offerings provide newly hardened backups for configuration and snapshots, in an effort to add a new tool to the antiransomware arsenal for Linux systems. To read this article in full, please click here

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Ransomware could target OneDrive and SharePoint files by abusing versioning configurations

CSO Magazine

Researchers warn that documents hosted in the cloud might not be out of reach for ransomware actors and that while they're harder to permanently encrypt due to the automated backup features of cloud service, there are still ways to make life hard for organizations.