Ransomware News
I’ve been tracking news on ransomware for a while now, and there’s been a few events of late that warrant…
Category: Security
Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud
Last year, I was asked to co-write a book with Ravi Das on risks and data protection in the public…
Backup Servers and Malicious Attacks
Many years ago when I was still a Unix system administrator, some midrange systems manager got the bright idea to…
Pay the Ransom or Recover the Data?
Let’s consider a theoretical scenario: your business has been hit by Ransomware, and a chunk of data on a fileserver…
Australia demands an end to data protection
Normally on the data protection blog I talk about data protection as it applies to functions such as backup and recovery, CDP,…
2017 in Review
With just a few more days of 2017 left, I thought it opportune making the last post of the year…
Talking about Ransomware
The “Wannacry” Ransomware strike saw a particularly large number of systems infected and garnered a great deal of media attention. As…
Ransomware is a fact of life
The NetWorker usage survey for 2016 has just finished. One of the questions I asked in this most recent survey was…
Basics – Configuring a reports-only user
Something that’s come up a few times in the last year for me has been a situation where a NetWorker…
How secure are your backups?
Backup security is – or rather should be a big requirement in any organisation. Sadly we still see periodic examples…