backup

November 3

How Continuous Image-Based Backups Make Disaster Recovery Fast, Easy, and Reliable in Smaller Environments

Smaller businesses are bearing the brunt of ransomware attacks. That’s the headline in a Forbes article summarizing a recent Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. Citing testimony from Justice Department Criminal Division Deputy Attorney General Richard Downing, cybercriminals don’t even need to create ransomware anymore now that licensed ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has arrived on the (crime) scene. The… Read more »

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July 16

7 Steps to Preventing Ransomware Disasters

By now, you’re well aware of the ransomware problem. But just in case you need a refresher, here are some facts that might put you on edge: Ransomware is still a huge problem Cybersecurity Ventures forecasts that ransomware costs will reach $20 billion by 2021. Ransomware is evolving Some of the newest ransomware doesn’t just… Read more »

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June 17

Backup Best Practices: Why You Should Follow the 3-2-2 Rule

The FBI’s Internet Crime Center (IC3) received 467,361 complaints in 2019—nearly 1,300 every day according to its 2019 Internet Crime Report. The report goes on to say that losses to businesses and individual victims totaled more than $3.5 billion. The costliest attacks? Compromised business emails and spoofing resulting in ransomware locking up vital systems or… Read more »

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May 4

Backup vs. Replication: What’s the Difference?

It’s common in the IT world to hear people use the terms backup and replication interchangeably. And it’s easy to see why. Backing up a file, folder, application—or even an entire system—involves some replication. But it’s important to understand that there are distinct differences between the two—important distinctions that impact how you can integrate them… Read more »

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May 6

7 Data Security Measures All Businesses Should Take

Data security has come a long way since its early days of simple scans and firewalls. Though there are certain older tools and techniques that are still valuable today, there are other methods of security that every single business should be employing. Here are seven of those: Perfect Your Passwords At the top of the… Read more »

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