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The question now becomes, is backup alone enough, or is full disaster recovery required to mitigate the effect of ransomware? By 'disaster recovery', we mean the full gamut of backing up data, recovering that data, and business restitution without loss of business continuity. A good backup system will allow rapid if not immediate recovery minimizing the loss of data to an annoyance rather than a disaster.
"Data protection can come into play in a wide array of important ways - including data security and encryption, data recovery, email protection and data archiving. It also provides the ability to recover quickly from a disaster, protection from and mitigation of ransomware, and physical device protection. Plus, it can prevent user error," said Reeder. Top executives in education see data backup and data recovery as the most important aspects of data protection.
A regular and reliable backup process will protect you from unexpected data loss of any sort, including cases - as many people will have experienced when coronavirus lockdowns started and they couldn't get back into the office - where your data isn't lost, but you can't get at it anyway. If ransomware strikes your entire network, or a power surge takes out your laptop where you keep your backup drive plugged in all the time, then you no longer have a backup.
A vulnerability addressed recently in the WPvivid Backup Plugin could be exploited to obtain all files of a WordPress website, web security company WebARX reveals. WPvivid Backup Plugin is a free and open-source plugin that allows users to easily backup, migrate, and restore their WordPress installations to new hosts, or send backups to remote storage.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced advancements in its data protection offerings with Veeam support for HPE Primera storage and enhancements to HPE StoreOnce backup. HPE and Veeam have partnered to protect customer data for the past decade, and this new support for HPE Primera, together with the just announced Veeam Availability Suite v10, ensures customers' data is always available, recoverable and protected.
Clumio, innovators of authentic SaaS for enterprise backup, announced that its Enterprise Backup as a Service solution has attained VMware Partner Ready for VMware Cloud on AWS validation. By validating Clumio Backup as a Service with VMware Cloud on AWS and attaining the VMware Partner Ready for VMware Cloud on AWS logo, Clumio has tested and verified interoperability and can fully manage customer support requests for Clumio Backup as a Service with VMware Cloud on AWS. "We are pleased that Clumio Enterprise Backup as a Service is validated for VMware Cloud on AWS. This signifies to customers that Clumio Backup as a Service can be deployed with the knowledge and reassurance that the partner fully supports the specified versions and configurations on VMware Cloud on AWS," said Kristen Edwards, director, Technology Alliance Partner Program, VMware.
Cobalt Iron announced the extension for its Compass enterprise SaaS backup platform that offers advanced protection for network-attached storage data. "In today's enterprises, tremendous amounts of business-critical data are held in NAS systems. The amount of stored NAS data and the urgency to protect it is constantly growing; however, NAS backup and recovery techniques haven't improved much over the years," said Greg Tevis, vice president of Global Strategy at Cobalt Iron.
HiveIO announced version 8.0 of Hive Fabric, an intelligent virtualization solution that provides high-performing, scalable technology that removes complexity in the data center and delivers a seamless IT experience. The new version provides protection for virtual machines and user data with its Disaster Recovery capability by seamlessly integrating with cloud storage.
More than two years ago, Apple told the FBI that it planned to offer users end-to-end encryption when storing their phone data on iCloud, according to one current and three former FBI officials and one current and one former Apple employee. Under that plan, primarily designed to thwart hackers, Apple would no longer have a key to unlock the encrypted data, meaning it would not be able to turn material over to authorities in a readable form even under court order.