We’ve been writing about ransomware for a long time. And, it’s certainly big news right now with the massive attack on Kaseya Ltd. affecting hundreds, if not thousands, of businesses. But ransomware has been around a lot longer than most of us realize. The year was 1989, and a Harvard-educated evolutionary biologist named Joseph Popp… Read more »
Read the ArticleAs much as we hate it, ransomware is here to stay. It is now permanently on the list of things to watch for when it comes to cybersecurity. There is no silver bullet against ransomware, so to mitigate the threat, you must protect your data from every possibility—and always consider the worst-case scenario. According to… Read more »
Read the ArticleIf you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you spend plenty of time in your data center. If so, you know that your data center is evolving and changing just as quickly as the business environment around us. That means new challenges are popping up all the time. Phishing was present in 36 percent of… Read more »
Read the ArticleRansomware is front-page news again. It’s gotten so bad that the FBI has asked Congress for $40 million to help combat this new wave of attacks. But there’s a form of ransomware that’s been around for some time that could wreak even more havoc than the original. Jackware. One cybersecurity expert says jackware could be… Read more »
Read the ArticleDRaaS is an acronym that just about every IT pro understands. Short for disaster recovery as a service, DRaaS is a cloud computing service model that lets you replicate your systems, data, and applications to a third-party cloud computing environment so they can be recovered and restored. DRaaS is a game-changer when it comes to… Read more »
Read the ArticleThe recent Biden Administration Executive Order is pushing for improvements to the nation’s cybersecurity. In response, Arcserve recently shared findings from its independent research. The research delved into the experiences and attitudes of IT decision-makers around data protection. The research exposed that many organizations’ ransomware strategies are weak and could make it difficult to recover… Read more »
Read the ArticleYour data is at risk. Of course, you already knew that. Unfortunately, those risks are many. Take the Colonial Pipeline hack, for example. It was the result of the simple act of a compromised password. Or the JBS meat company attack perpetrated by the Russian cybercriminal group REvil that resulted in an $11 million ransomware… Read more »
Read the ArticleIt’s pretty clear that cloud services have become a core element of almost every infrastructure strategy to some degree. The numbers say it all: IDC says that the worldwide public cloud services market grew more than 24 percent year over year in 2020. And according to Deloitte, more than 90 percent of global enterprises will… Read more »
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