There is no such thing as fail-proof systems says Avi Shillo, and global public cloud systems are no different. Outages have happened, and will occur again in the future. The answer for resilience is taking a cloud-agnostic approach…
It’s not just the initial ransomware attack that organizations need to be concerned with, it’s also the aftermath. The questions of: Is it over? How do we recover? What is stopping threat actors from doing it again? Ed Williams looks at ransomware incident management.
Social media as a threat channel saw a two-fold increase in attacks throughout 2021, according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & Intelligence Report from PhishLabs by HelpSystems.
The disconnect between business expectations and IT’s ability to deliver has never been more impactful, according to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022, which found that 89 percent of organizations are not protecting data sufficiently.
Until recently the standard advice was to turn to your backups to initiate a response to a ransomware attack. However, as attackers have adapted their techniques to target backups is this approach still feasible? Peter Groucutt describes three ways of protecting backups to ensure that they can be used effectively after a ransomware attack.
In a joint security advisory, ‘2021 Trends Show Increased Globalized Threat of Ransomware’, various US, UK, and Australian security agencies have warned about the high level of threat that critical infrastructure organizations and others face due to a global increase in sophisticated, high-impact, ransomware incidents.
SonicWall has released its 2022 Cyber Threat Report. This details a sustained surge in ransomware with 623.3 million attacks globally. Nearly all monitored threats, cyber attacks and malicious digital assaults rose in 2021 including ransomware, encrypted threats, IoT malware, and cryptojacking.
BlackBerry Limited has released the 2022 BlackBerry Annual Threat Report, which uncovers cyber breadcrumbs from some of last year’s most notorious ransomware attacks, suggesting that some of the biggest culprits may have simply been outsourced labour.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and CERT- EU have jointly published ‘Boost your Organisation's Cyber Resilience’, a set of cyber resilience best practices for public and private organizations in the EU.
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Business continuity can be defined as 'the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption'. Read more about the basics of business continuity here.
