Security News > 2023 > October > How to stop ransomware thieves WORMing their way into your data

Object First specialises in protecting data from encryption by ransomware crooks.

Data backups were a form of business risk to these new, grown-up ransomware gangs.

Whereas file and block-based storage models tend to store data in hierarchical structures, object storage stores data as uniquely-identifiable units with their own metadata in a single bucket.

The hard drives form a RAID 6 array, storing data parity information twice, so that data is recoverable even if two disks fail.

Data backups alone aren't a gold-plated protection against more modern ransomware business models.

Double-extortion ransomware gangs will steal your data even if they can't encrypt it, meaning that restoring scrambled files will only solve half of your problems.

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