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This can be extremely challenging if your recovery playbook consists of a single, entirely logical, but time-consuming and rigid recovery strategy. Having a better grasp of what you need to protect, and deeper insight into the damage caused by any given incident could mean much more targeted - and much swifter - recoveries.
The prospect of having all your data and applications compromised, whether due to ransomware or other cyberattacks, or any of the more traditional disaster scenarios is so horrifying, that it's natural to throw everything you have at it. Do things really have to be so all or nothing? Could there be a smarter way to stage a recovery? When it comes to a ransomware attack, for example, it's not necessarily the case that everything is going to be encrypted, so do you need to recover all your data immediately to get back up and running? A more focused approach could get you back up and running much more quickly.
Disaster recovery used to be thought of as a form of corporate hygiene, but it's becoming increasingly clear it has to be considered a matter of corporate survival. "VMware Site Recovery has been around a little while but has been adopted to be cloud compatible, so replicating your primary data center to a secondary data center that might be in the cloud, something like VMware Cloud on AWS, for example," says Hine.
When you're putting your enterprise security and data management strategy in place, should you worry more about ransomware or natural disasters? While you can't accurately predict when your facilities are likely to be hit by an earthquake, flood, or plague of locusts you can probably be assured that your systems are going to be constantly bombarded by cyberthreats, which increasingly means malware.
CSS in theory provides a way to look for unlawful content while also allowing data to be protected off-device. "Indeed, the effect is the opposite. CSS by its nature creates serious security and privacy risks for all society while the assistance it can provide for law enforcement is at best problematic. There are multiple ways in which client-side scanning can fail, can be evaded, and can be abused."
Continuity issued a research report which provided an analysis of the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations of enterprise storage systems. The findings revealed that storage systems have a significantly weaker security posture than the other two layers of IT infrastructure: compute or network.
A strong incident-response plan can help a company recover quickly and reduce incident costs. When did the incident take place? Who discovered it? At what point did the security and IT teams intervene? Along with these steps, it is crucial to identify the type and nature of the incident and confirm that it is an actual incident.
Exchange Server downtime may occur at any point in time due to several reasons, such as malware attack, server crash, database corruption, and hardware or software-related issues/incompatibility. Exchange Server downtime is inevitable, especially when your organization relies on a standalone on-premises Exchange server.
As organizations work diligently to support evolving business needs, while at the same time battling cybercrime and other threats to critical data, the majority of disaster recovery solutions are not tested on a regular basis, according to iland. As the IT estate changes over time, the survey indicated most disaster recovery solutions would not meet recovery objectives.
Taiwan-based network-attached storage maker QNAP has addressed a critical security vulnerability enabling attackers to compromise vulnerable NAS devices' security. The improper access control vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-28809 was found by Ta-Lun Yen of TXOne IoT/ICS Security Research Labs in HBS 3 Hybrid Backup Sync, QNAP's disaster recovery and data backup solution.