Security News > 2022 > August > You can’t choose when you’ll be hit by ransomware, but you can choose how you prepare

There's a corollary with ransomware here explains David Paquette, product marketing manager at HPE-owned continuous data protection company Zerto.

That's why organizations need to start thinking of ransomware in disaster recovery terms, not just simple backup and recovery terms, he argues.

Now ransomware and its creators have become more advanced, says Paquette: "It is propagating into backups and encrypting them or deleting them. It's encrypting entire applications, entire sites. And the consequences are far beyond a simple loss of data."

"You have to be prepared to be able to recover quickly and with near-zero data loss from multiple different copies of data, hopefully across different platforms, different locations, and with immutability," Paquette says.

He cites the example of Dutch textile giant Tencate Protective Fabrics, whose previous solution captured its data before it was hit by ransomware.

SaaS data has become increasingly appealing to hackers, not least because users often let their guard down, assuming the cloud vendor is responsible for data protection - a responsibility they rarely assume.

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