Keep Your companys crown jewels safe and secure from ransomware: Building cloud-based backup and DR into ransomware defence

Keep Your companys crown jewels safe and secure from ransomware: Building cloud-based backup and DR into ransomware defence

By Amy Hawthorne

 

It’s a sad fact of life that whenever someone owns anything of value, there’s someone else out there who wants to get their hands on it illegally. Today’s corporate crown jewels are the critical data on which organisations depend and the highwaymen are cybercriminals, who have built a lucrative industry from ransomware attacks that disrupt businesses, steal data and aim to extract payment from their victims.

Tackling this scourge is a critical challenge for IT managers on several levels, but when it comes to the crunch, putting solid cloud backup and disaster recovery (DR) plans in place can help businesses keep hold of the aces and hang on to their crown jewels. Read more https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2018/aug/21/protecting-your-companys-crown-jewels-building-cloud-based-backup-and-dr-ransomware-defence/